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By: Sarah Farquharson

Thesis

Sources

Slave ship captains brutalized and dehumanized slaves as a means to assert their dominance and control on the ship during the middle passage of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade

Hoare, Prince. 1820. Memoirs of granville sharp.

Martin, Thomas P. 1931. The Journal of Modern History 3 (2) (Jun.): p. 291, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1871723.

Nichols, Margaret. 2011. Contemporary Sociology 40 (2) (March): 153-4, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23042109.

Palmerston, Henry John Temple. 1844. Speech of viscount palmerston in the house of commons, on tuesday, july 16th, 1844: On the slave trade. Hume Tracts, http://www.jstor.org/stable/60209613.

Rediker, Marcus. 2007. The slave ship: A human history. New York: Viking.

Stokes, Robert. 1851. Regulated slave trade, from the evidence of robert stokes, esq., given before the select committee of the house of lords, in 1849, with a plate showing the stowage of a british slave ship, during the regulated slave trade. Foreign and Commonwealth Office Collection, http://www.jstor.org/stable/60236980.

Wood, Betty. 1997. The origins in american slavery: Freedom and bondage in the english colonies. First Edition ed. New York: Hill and Wang.

Support

  • Ship blueprint to set up slaves for transport.
  • Tactics used to instill fear of rebellion.
  • Role of the crew in killing slaves due to captain's orders.

Zong

The Slave Ship Zong

  • Famous case with the loss of137 slaves over 3 days for insurance claim.
  • Brutality and waste in slave trade.
  • Impacted legislation on trans-Atlantic slave trade

The Struggle

Problems during extensive research

Why you should care!

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

The case of the Slave Ship Zong led to the abolitionist movement of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The raw details of the case revealed the t brutality among slave ships.

They're like a good friend:

  • Hard to cite
  • Hard to find
  • You never know which one is "real".

They're like parents:

  • Some are useful
  • Some are very biased
  • Some offer no help to the problem
  • Hard to find
  • Too good to be true
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