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13 de sept. de 2012 · 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. This article gives due weight to the overriding concerns of commerce in the ...
University of Essex, Colchester. E-mail: krikjm@essex.ac.uk. 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 ...
24 de nov. de 2021 · In late 1781, the crew of the slave ship Zong, facing a shortage of water, threw overboard much of their ‘cargo’. The massacre of 133 African people and resulting law case – not for murder, but insurance – focuses attention to the treatment of enslaved people and, as James Walvin explores, reminds us that while Britain played a key role in abolition, its role in the global slave trade ...
17 de may. de 2019 · As sempaiscuba has said, it was illegal to kill a slave in the slave-holding states of the United States. Premeditated murder of a slave has always been illegal in the slave-holding states. However, it was not until December 20th, 1821 that all of the slave-holding states held that the first degree murder of a slave was a capital offense.
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In John Babson’s 1860 History of Gloucester, for example, the word slave occurs only once—in the context of identifying a murder victim. 1 Babson, John James, 1860, History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Ann: Including the Town of Rockport, p. 293. The word slavery also occurs once, but only in association with selectmen’s outrage against the 1773 tea tax—a famous prelude to the War ...
1 de dic. de 2012 · 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.