UPDATE: There is now a 15th anniversary edition of Zong! with a new, extended preface from M. NourbeSe Philip and new essays by Saidiya Hartman and Katherine McKittrick. It was published it in October ...
A description of conditions on board the slave ships and an outline of the Zong case of 29 November 1781. Poor weather conditions and inept navigation resulted in a journey that took months rather ...
The slave ship Zong departed the coast of Africa on September 6, 1781 with 470 slaves. Since this human chattel was such a valuable commodity at that time, many captains took on more slaves than their ...