Feature Though the massacre of captives aboard the British slave shipZongscandalised society, the pace of reform was slow. Robert Weisbord| Published inHistory TodayVolume 19 Issue 8 August 1969 Dr Hinchcliff, the Bishop of Peterborough, called it ‘one of the most inhuman barbarities that I e...
He battled tirelessly as one of Britain’s first ever great campaigners for the abolition of the trade. There would be many court cases and stories of cruelty that would shock him but if one stood out as particularly horrifying it was the Zong massacre off the Cape Coast of West Africa i...
last opperating slave ship to US La Amistad slave revolt led to freedom for 53 enslaved Africans (1839) Zong 130 slaves thrown overboard (Zong Massacre) Brooks Carried 450-600 persons, 10-15% mortality rate Marie- Seraphique operated 1770-1774 ...