THE ZORG: A TALE OF GREED AND MURDER THAT INSPIRED THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY BY SIDDHARTH KARA
THE ZORG: A TALE OF GREED AND MURDER THAT INSPIRED THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY BY SIDDHARTH KARA
From Pulitzer finalist andĀ New York TimesĀ bestselling author ofĀ Cobalt Red: A notorious slave ship incident that led to the abolition of slavery in the UK and sparked the US abolitionist movement
In late October 1780, a slave ship set sail from the Netherlands, bound for Africaās Windward and Gold Coasts, where it would take on its human cargo. TheĀ ZorgĀ (a Dutch word meaning ācareā) was one of thousands of such ships, but the harrowing events that ensued on its doomed journey were unique.
After reaching Africa, theĀ ZorgĀ was captured by a privateer and came under British command. With a new captain and crew, the ship was crammed with 442 slaves and departed in 1781 for Jamaica. But a series of unpredictable weather events and mistakes in navigation left the ship drastically off course and running out of water. So a proposition was put forth: Save the crew and the most valuable of the slavesāby throwing dozens of people, starting with women and children, overboard.
What followed was a fascinating legal drama in Englandās highest court that turned the brutal calculus of slavery into front-page news. The case of theĀ ZorgĀ catapulted the nascent anti-slavery movement from a minor evangelical cause to one of the most consequential moral campaigns in historyāsparking the abolitionist movement in both England and the young United States
Siddharth Kara utilizes primary-source research, gripping storytelling, and painstaking investigation to uncover theĀ Zorgās journey, the lives and fates of the slaves on board, and the mysterious identity of the abolitionist who finally revealed the truth of what happened on the ship.
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From Pulitzer finalist andĀ New York TimesĀ bestselling author ofĀ Cobalt Red: A notorious slave ship incident that led to the abolition of slavery in the UK and sparked the US abolitionist movement
In late October 1780, a slave ship set sail from the Netherlands, bound for Africaās Windward and Gold Coasts, where it would take on its human cargo. TheĀ ZorgĀ (a Dutch word meaning ācareā) was one of thousands of such ships, but the harrowing events that ensued on its doomed journey were unique.
After reaching Africa, theĀ ZorgĀ was captured by a privateer and came under British command. With a new captain and crew, the ship was crammed with 442 slaves and departed in 1781 for Jamaica. But a series of unpredictable weather events and mistakes in navigation left the ship drastically off course and running out of water. So a proposition was put forth: Save the crew and the most valuable of the slavesāby throwing dozens of people, starting with women and children, overboard.
What followed was a fascinating legal drama in Englandās highest court that turned the brutal calculus of slavery into front-page news. The case of theĀ ZorgĀ catapulted the nascent anti-slavery movement from a minor evangelical cause to one of the most consequential moral campaigns in historyāsparking the abolitionist movement in both England and the young United States
Siddharth Kara utilizes primary-source research, gripping storytelling, and painstaking investigation to uncover theĀ Zorgās journey, the lives and fates of the slaves on board, and the mysterious identity of the abolitionist who finally revealed the truth of what happened on the ship.
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DIMENSIONS: 6.55 x 1 x 9.55 inches
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From Pulitzer finalist andĀ New York TimesĀ bestselling author ofĀ Cobalt Red: A notorious slave ship incident that led to the abolition of slavery in the UK and sparked the US abolitionist movement
In late October 1780, a slave ship set sail from the Netherlands, bound for Africaās Windward and Gold Coasts, where it would take on its human cargo. TheĀ ZorgĀ (a Dutch word meaning ācareā) was one of thousands of such ships, but the harrowing events that ensued on its doomed journey were unique.
After reaching Africa, theĀ ZorgĀ was captured by a privateer and came under British command. With a new captain and crew, the ship was crammed with 442 slaves and departed in 1781 for Jamaica. But a series of unpredictable weather events and mistakes in navigation left the ship drastically off course and running out of water. So a proposition was put forth: Save the crew and the most valuable of the slavesāby throwing dozens of people, starting with women and children, overboard.
What followed was a fascinating legal drama in Englandās highest court that turned the brutal calculus of slavery into front-page news. The case of theĀ ZorgĀ catapulted the nascent anti-slavery movement from a minor evangelical cause to one of the most consequential moral campaigns in historyāsparking the abolitionist movement in both England and the young United States
Siddharth Kara utilizes primary-source research, gripping storytelling, and painstaking investigation to uncover theĀ Zorgās journey, the lives and fates of the slaves on board, and the mysterious identity of the abolitionist who finally revealed the truth of what happened on the ship.
HARDBACK BOOK
DIMENSIONS: 6.55 x 1 x 9.55 inches
