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An African Cargo - The Trials of the Slave Ship Zong archiveIn 1781 the slave ship Zong, overlade with captured Africans, was heading to Jamaica but lost its way in the Caribbean Sea. With diminishing water supplies and many of his slaves sick and dying, the captain decided to throw most of the Africans overboard and to claim on the insurance on the basis of loss of 'cargo' - a moment of history captured in Turner's painting The Slave Ship. Two years later, in an astonishing series of events the insurance company, battling to avoid payment, claimed that African slaves were not 'cargo' but actual human beings. In an unprecedented court ruling the stage was set for the abolition of the slave trade. Powered by the heart-rending songs of humanity from West Africa, the Caribbean and Southern USA, Nitro stages a dramatic reconstruction of the events surrounding one of the most notorious and significant episodes in the history of the slave trade.

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Producer(s): Nitro, Greenwich Theatre

An African Cargo - The Trials of the Slave Ship Zong

An African Cargo - The Trials of the Slave Ship Zong (Play) production archive for QTIX code T2083383638. Details of all An African Cargo - The Trials of the Slave Ship Zong archived productions can be found under the QTIX code: S01265897271

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25 Oct 07
  to
26 Oct 07
Greenwich Theatre
Outer London, Greater London
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