The Zong
Subtitle: a massacre, the law and the end of slavery
By: James Walvin
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Subjects: Violence against; Slave-trade; Trials; Marine insurance; Law and legislation; Seafaring life; Slavery; Zong (Slave ship); Slaves; Antislavery movements; Mass murder; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A painting and a ship; title: The city built on slavery; title: Crews and captives; title: The making of the Zong; title: All at sea; title: An open secret; title: In the eyes of the law; title: A matter of necessity; title: In the wake of the Zong; title: Abolition and after; title: Remembering the Zong.