Act of Inhumanity that Heralded the End of Slavery
Michael Cross reviews 'The Zorg: A Tale of Greed, Murder and the Abolition of Slavery'. JMW Turner's 1840 work Slave Ship: Slavers throwing overboard the dead and the dying, typhoon coming on, retains its power to shock.
Historian of modern slavery Siddharth Kara achieves something similar with his account of a ‘culminating act of inhumanity’ in the Atlantic slave trade, known as the Zong case, where over 100 African captives were thrown overboard.
The allegation, of course, was that the captives’ insured value was worth more than their emaciated live bodies would have made at auction in Jamaica.
Kara’s account of the voyage, the subsequent judicial proceedings and the episode’s importance for the campaign against slavery, is much more than a gruesome recounting of events.
Author's summary: A historical account of the Zong case and its impact on the abolition of slavery.
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