The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
Categories: History
The Zorg is Siddharth Kara's narrative history of the British slave ship, renamed the Zong, whose crew threw more than a hundred enslaved Africans overboard in 1781 so the owners could claim insurance money. Kara follows the voyage from the West African coast, the killings at sea and the court case in London that treated the victims as lost cargo. He shows how the scandal, taken up by campaigners such as Granville Sharp, helped turn public opinion against the slave trade.
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- Ryan Holiday: “This book, The Zorg... I thought this was a gripping narrative non-fiction book”