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Bristol Old Vic Premiere THE MEANING OF ZONG To Be Broadcast as BBC Radio Play This Month Giles Terera will star as Olaudah Equiano, alongside Samuel West as Granville Sharpe.by BWW News Desk As the UK approaches the anniversary of theatre closures due to lockdown, Bristol Old Vic partners with the BBC Lights Up season celebrating British Theatre and new writing, with a radio broadcast of Olivier Award-winner Giles Terera s debut play, The Meaning of Zong. Originally developed by Bristol Old Vic and The National Theatre, it was first presented as a rehearsed reading by Bristol Old Vic in 2018. The Meaning of Zong tells of the massacre aboard the slave ship Zong in 1781 where more than 130 enslaved Africans lost their lives. Olaudah Equiano, a freedman, brought news of the massacre to the attention of the anti-slavery campaigner Granville Sharp. Reports of the massacre and subsequent court case received increased publicity, and galvanised the abolition movement in t ....
Last modified on Tue 19 Jan 2021 02.02 EST In August 1781, a British slave ship, the Zong, left Ghana with 442 slaves aboard – twice the number it was designed to carry – bound for Jamaica. The ship’s owners claimed that due to navigational errors, it took longer than anticipated to reach Jamaica, and as water was running low, the crew threw more than 130 live slaves overboard. The truth of what happened is disputed and evidence suggested that rain meant the ship had enough water. As was common practice, the ship owners had taken out insurance for their “cargo” of enslaved people. When news of the massacre reached England, they made a claim for compensation. The insurers refused to pay and the ship owners took them to court. ....
Zong, (renamed Richard of Jamaica), one of 10 ships to have disembarked Africans in Black River from 1781-1791, docked after a long voyage from modern-day Ghana. Seized from the Dutch (as Zorgue) and sold to a Liverpool syndicate led by William Gregson, the Zong was captained by Luke Collingwood. The overcrowded ship with 442 Africans onboard, including 244 already on board when it was seized, left Accra on August 18, 1781, making a stop in Sao Tomé before embarking on the Middle Passage journey on September 6, 1781. Ten weeks later, it arrived in Tobago, after which it continued on its journey to Black River, but it veered off-course near Haiti, losing time. By then, complaints of water shortage, illness, and death among the crew and poor navigational and leadership decisions all created a level of confusion aboard. Towards the end of November, approximately 62 Africans had died. ....
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The Legal Status of Slaves The legal position of enslaved Africans in Britain before the abolition of slavery was ambiguous, and further muddied and confused by senior lawyers. Revolutionary uprisings demanding natural justice rocked America in 1776 and France in 1789, but the principles of political and social freedom had limited application, particularly in the case of slaves. Slaves as Property Plantation owners in the Americas were dependent upon slaves to ensure high profitability. In Britain, 18th-century laws were designed to support a trade in slaves that was sanctioned by the king and parliament. A decision by the Solicitor General ....