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Gregson v Gilbert

The owners of the Zong sued their underwriters for the value of the captives thrown overboard; King’s Bench ordered a new trial on 22 May 1783.

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  1. 22 May 1783 Gregson v Gilbert
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  1. A New Look at the Zong Case of 1783, XVII-XVIII: Revue de la Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, 2019. Scholarship & press
    the owners, the Gregson syndicate, claimed the losses of the murdered slaves at £30 per head
    They awarded the Gregson syndicate £3,660 for the loss of 122 Africans insured at £30 each.
    Gilbert’s decision not to accept the Gregsons’ claim
    seems to make more sense as an insurance scam than as a genuine attempt to forestall insurrection
    That crime happened with regularity.
    when it came before the Court of King’s Bench on 22 May 1783
    did not get their money
    Sharp was determined that the crew of the Zong be arraigned for murder and made his views as public
  2. Gregson v Gilbert (1783) 3 Douglas 232, 99 English Reports 629, as copied on the Kenlocution blog, Kenlocution blog (a personal blog), copying the English Reports text of the Court of King’s Bench report, 22 May 1783. Scholarship & press
    Lord Mansfield.—This is a very uncommon case, and deserves a reconsideration.
    they took these means of transferring the loss from the owners to the underwriters
    Nor was it the fact that the slaves were destroyed in order to throw the loss on the underwriters.
    This was an action on a policy of insurance, to recover the value of certain slaves thrown overboard for want of water.
    were obliged to throw overboard 150 other negroes
    against loss by throwing overboard on any account whatsoever
  3. The Zong, Understanding Slavery Initiative. Scholarship & press
    to bring to justice the guilty men from the Zong (he failed)
    Equiano called on anti-slavery campaigner Granville Sharp
  4. The Zong Massacre Trial, London Museum. Scholarship & press
    But nobody was ever prosecuted for the murders.
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