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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.
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.
South Carolina law had stated since 1740 that a slave owner, or one in control of a slave, was presumed guilty of murder if the slave died while under his or her command. But if no white person was present, the defendant could give an exculpatory statement under oath, and the state had to prove the offense by the testimony of two ...
A crude and paradoxical medical discourse underwrote the operation of the European trans-Atlantic slave trade that continues to impress upon how we historicize, novelize, and narrativize...
It argues that this process habituated surgeons and captains – the Master of the Zong was both – to the possibility of death (at the hands of African controllers) of the captives they deemed unfit for the Atlantic slave trade. The article proposes that in the slave trade, medical expertise became yoked to the fateful decision of ...
This article gives due weight to the overriding concerns of commerce in the Zong atrocity, but it also explains it in terms of the culture and context of the selection of captives for the slave trade, a process in which ships' surgeons were prominent.
“It was the largest murder case in the history of the slave trade, but no one ever talked about it,” the Surinamese Dutch whose ancestors were enslaved added. In July 2013, an exhibition...
