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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.
Taking into account a wide range of cases—across time, place, and circumstance, in the United States but also in ancient Roman, Visigoth, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and British jurisdictions—his research reveals the changing legal reforms of slave homicide, and how these laws would underlay the legal attitudes of the Jim Crow era.
The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, ... New World slaves were considered the property of their owners, and slaves convicted of revolt or murder were executed. Slave market regions and participation Major slave trading regions of Africa, ...
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 brutal trade in enslaved people within the US has been largely whitewashed out of history. A trade card with printed black type for the domestic slave traders Hill, Ware and Chrisp....
A Chain of Murder in the Slave Trade: A Wider Context of the Zong Massacre. December 2012. Authors: Jeremy Krikler. Abstract. This article seeks to explore from a new angle the massacre...
