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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.
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...
Curated by Mary Elliott. All text by Mary Elliott and Jazmine Hughes Aug. 19, 2019. Sometime in 1619, a Portuguese slave ship, the São João Bautista, traveled across the Atlantic Ocean with a...
AMSTERDAM — On Jan. 1, 1738, the Leusden, a Dutch West India Company slave ship carrying nearly 700 African men, women and children through what is now Suriname, became caught in a terrible...
Learn More. Transatlantic slave trade, part of the global slave trade that took 10–12 million enslaved Africans to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th century. In the ‘triangular trade,’ arms and textiles went from Europe to Africa, enslaved people from Africa to the Americas, and sugar and coffee from the Americas to Europe.
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.
