Why Is It We Never Hear of the Zong Massacre?
via ▻https://diasp.eu/p/17689868
▻https://open.substack.com/pub/williamspivey/p/why-is-it-we-never-hear-of-the-zong
Murder Doesn’t Apply When All you Kill is Cargo
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The #cargo was insured for approximately half the enslaved people’s potential market value. The decision was made to throw enslaved people overboard over a period of days. On November 29, 54 women and children were thrown through cabin windows into the sea. On December 1, 42 enslaved men were thrown overboard, and 36 more followed in the next few days. Another ten chose to commit suicide by jumping into the sea. One of the captives requested that the remaining Africans be denied all food and drink rather than being thrown into the sea; the crew ignored this request. In total, 142 Africans were killed by the time the ship reached Jamaica.
Had the enslaved people died onshore or of natural causes, including starvation. No insurance claim would have been paid. By throwing them overboard, a clause called “general average” allowed for a claim when cargo had to be jettisoned to save the ship. On December 22, 1781, Zong arrived at Black River, #Jamaica, with 208 slaves on board, less than half the number taken from #Africa. The survivors were sold into slavery in January 1782.
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