Zong!

A haunting lifeline between archive and memory, law and poetryIn November, 1781, the captain of the slave ship Zong ordered that some 150 Africans be murdered by drowning so that the ship's owners could collect insurance monies. Relying entirely on the words of the legal decision Gregson v. Gilbert?the only extant public document related to the massacre of these African slaves?Zong! tells the story that cannot be told yet must be told. Equal parts song, moan, shout, oath, ulu
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Release dateAugust 15th 2011
LanguageEnglish
PublisherWesleyan University Press
CollectionWesleyan Poetry Series
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