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Zong! (Wesleyan Poetry Series) (1st Edition) by Marlene Nourbese-Philip, Setaey Adamu Boateng (Narrator), M. Nourbe Sephilip Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2008 ISBN-10: 0-8195-6876-7 / 0819568767 ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-6876-2 / 9780819568762 In 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 th |