The Zong Massacre (In Our Time)
1781 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the notorious events off Jamaica in 1781 and their background. The British slave ship Zong, having sailed across the Atlantic towards Jamaica, threw 132 enslaved Africans from its human cargo into the sea to drown. Even for a slave ship, the Zong was overcrowded; those murdered were worth more to the ship dead than alive.
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Around 1781
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- American Revolution (1765)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Greek War of Independence (1821)
- Haitian Revolution (1791)