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Podcast: Dan Snow's History Hit
Episode: The Zong Massacre
Description: Please note, this episode contains descriptions of racial violence that some listeners may find disturbing.In November 1781, a slave ship carrying hundreds of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic began to run out of water. The ship was called the Zong, and her crew decided to save their own lives by throwing enslaved Africans overboard. In a sinister twist, they would later file an insurance claim on the lives of those they killed, treating them simply as cargo. This appalling episode has since become known as the Zong Massacre and was a key catalyst in the fight...