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Zong massacre: Quick Facts

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Facts

Date November 29, 1781 - c. December 1781
Location Caribbean Sea
Context British Empire • transatlantic slave trade

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Slave Ship by J.M.W. Turner
Formerly enslaved writer and abolitionist Olaudah Equiano
Replica of the Zong
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