Find out more about the Zong and slavery

Hi,

In addition to the links and the text I’ve written on the BBC pages about the Zong,

here are some other really cool ones:

1) Dramatization of  Granville Sharp’s letters about the Zong incident

http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=19007

2) National Maritime Museum papers on the Zong – why not go for a visit and see the real papers yourself – it is absolutely fascinating

http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/archive/catalogue/record.cfm?ID=REC%2F19

3) This is really interesting: The Journal of Legal History, Volume 28 Issue 3 2007, Zong Symposium (subscription required)

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g785927747~db=all

4 )  Understanding Slavery Briefing pack including reference to Act of Parliament in 1790 that resulted from the Zong Case. http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:CyGjcRIcjcAJ:www.understandingslavery.com/index.php%3Foption%3Dcom_resources%26view%3Ddownload%26id%3D205%26Itemid%3D2+‘no+loss+or+damage+shall+be+recoverable+on+account+of+the+mortality+of+slaves+by+natural+death+or+ill+treatment,+or+against+loss+by+throwing+overboard+of+slaves+on+any+account+whatsoever’&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgOhrjr75jh2RTn2s47b2u6GMucX2E-q6Y23xkjiTWy709NqzkdSgDxxZyz-DHiZKL4RZojEjEt4B1_3sGxms5KQ129j_TNPm6NfR7SbPy0KesWquPh3roTZqb0-1v7Fzjv-Lc8&sig=AHIEtbQCwGKqEGFb3Evim_a7c40N8WH3FA

5) National Archives – The Somerset Ruling

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/blackhistory/rights/slave_free.htm

6) English Heritage – Slavery and the Law

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/content/imported-docs/p-t/rosieleaflets2final.pdf

7) Case of insurance fraud at the Old Bailey – sentence is death!

Case of Edward Gilson 1807

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t18070916-94-off492&div=t18070916-94&terms=insurance#highlight

8 ) What is a ‘Hulk Ship’?

http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/ConNarrative.56/Prison-hulks-on-the-River-Thames.html

9) What is a recommendation to mercy?  http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/static/Verdicts.jsp

10) Where was the original Zong case heard? The Guildhall http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/discover/people-and-places/the-slave-trade-and-abolition/sites-of-memory/the-slave-trade-and-plantation-wealth/

11) What about Garrow and Slavey? Geoffrey Robertson Preface to Garrow Biography

http://www.geoffreyrobertson.com/williamgarrow.html

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