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Zong was the first command of Luke Collingwood, formerly the surgeon on the William. [15] While Collingwood lacked experience in navigation and command, ship's surgeons were typically involved in selecting captured Africans for purchase, so their medical expertise supported the determination of "commodity value" for a captive. [16]
The Zong had been a Dutch vessel, the Zorgue, seized by the British in 1781 off West Africa, along with 244 Africans on board. It was then bought by the captain of a Liverpool slave ship on behalf of his Liverpool owners. With a new make-shift crew, captained by Luke Collingwood, an experienced slave-ship surgeon, the Zong traded at Cape Coast ...
- Why Were The Enslaved People Killed?
- Was This The Case Just For British Insurance?
- How Did The Slave Trade Change in The Early 19th Century?
Before the Zongcase in 1783, the legal question of how insurance claims were affected should Africans be deliberately killed had not arisen. For that was all the Zong affair was concerned with: insurance. The massacre had been explained under a plea of necessity, forced on the crew by a shortage of water. The massive expansion of European trade to ...
Though the murderous reality of the Zong affair was English, the killing of Africans at sea was common throughout the international trade in African humanity. All of Europe’s major colonial powers and the traders in the Americas had horrific examples of murdering Africans on their ships. We also know that mass killings continued on slave ships as l...
After 1808, the British and US navies operated abolitionist patrols to intercept illegal slave ships, but their efforts did not stop the flow of Africans across the Atlantic. It was during the years of that 19th-century slave trade that there were many more example of mass killings – some comparable to the Zong. We know more about those incidents l...
- Elinor Evans
Oct 11, 2011 · The slave ship Zong departed the coast of Africa on 6 September 1781 with 470 slaves. Since this human chattel was such a valuable commodity at that time, many captains took on more slaves than their ships could accommodate in order to maximize profits. The Zong’s captain, Luke Collingwood, overloaded his ship with slaves and by 29 November ...
Captain Luke Collingwood was used to grim voyages across the Atlantic, but this one had been worse than most. Dysentery, diarrhoea and smallpox had already claimed the lives of seven of the crew aboard the slave ship Zong. The slave cargo had suffered a far higher mortality rate. More than sixty had died since leaving the shores of Africa.
Jul 28, 2012 · The captain, Luke Collingwood, and his officers, then, over a three-day period threw 133 sick Africans, including women and children, into the sea. Headlines Delivered to Your Inbox Sign up for The Gleaner’s morning and evening newsletters.
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Feb 21, 2023 · The captain Luke Collingwood authorised the throwing of Africans overboard resulting in the brutal deaths of another 133 people. Historical evidence mentioned that at 8 pm. on November 29, 1781, some 54 enslaved Africans, mainly women and children, were dragged from below deck, unshackled and shoved from the ship through the cabin window and into the open expanse of the ocean.
