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Summary. This article seeks to explore from a new angle the massacre associated with the slave ship Zong – that is, the murder of around 130 slaves at sea in 1781. Hitherto, the massacre has been looked at largely in terms of the law, particularly insurance law, and the commercial logic of the British slave trade.
60 MILLION DEAD AT THE HANDS. OF WHITE CHRISTIAN IMPERIALISM. The largest slave trade in the history of the world was created by white Christian Europeans. Before it was over as many as 60 million Africans would be killed for the profit of white Christian imperialism.
Murder in the Slave Trade: Directed by Paul Wendkos. With James Stewart, James Luisi, Warren J. Kemmerling, Dick Gautier. Hawkins defends a star football player who is accused of killing his team's owner, a man who was apparently hated by plenty of other people as well, including his wife.
by Steven Mintz. TRANS-ATLANTIC SLAVE VOYAGES. Over the period of the Atlantic Slave Trade, from approximately 1526 to 1867, some 12.5 million captured men, women, and children were put on ships in Africa, and 10.7 million arrived in the Americas.
A study conducted by the consumer genetics company 23andMe, published Thursday in the American Journal of Human Genetics, offers some new insight into the consequences of the trans-Atlantic slave...
The story of the Zong slave ship: a mass murder masquerading as an insurance claim. A 1783 case exposed how the law facilitated the slave trade – and increased momentum for the abolitionist...
Summary This article seeks to explore from a new angle the massacre associated with the slave ship Zong – that is, the murder of around 130 slaves at sea in 1781. Hitherto, the massacre has been looked at largely in terms of the law, particularly insurance law, and the commercial logic of the British slave trade.
