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Jamaica

Island in the Caribbean, a British colony in 1781 and 1833.

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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 Zong finally arrived in Black River, southwest Jamaica, on 22 December 1781
    becalmed somewhere off the south-west of Jamaica
    Some crew then took 54 women and children from the hold and threw them overboard. No African man was killed in this first and especially pivotal action.
    throw overboard 42 “stout healthy Men slaves”
    On the final occasion, ten slaves leapt into the sea
    There was no insurrection on the Zong.
    After 132 slaves had been thrown overboard and a further 36 had died (with 30 left dead on the decks rather than being thrown overboard
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