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132 Africans Murdered: The Zorg's Role in Abolition

12/30/2025

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The Zorg tragedy, recounted in Siddharth Kara's The Zorg, shows 132 Africans murdered by the British crew and helped catalyze the 1807 abolition of Atlantic slave trade.
Olaudah Equiano, an enslaved person, documented horrors of the Middle Passage and inhumane conditions aboard slave ships.
The Zorg's voyage was driven by disease and greed, leading to the jettisoning of enslaved people for insurance claims and rise of abolitionist movements in England.

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Story summary

The Zorg tragedy, recounted in Siddharth Kara's The Zorg, shows 132 Africans murdered by the British crew and helped catalyze the 1807 abolition of Atlantic slave trade.
Olaudah Equiano, an enslaved person, documented horrors of the Middle Passage and inhumane conditions aboard slave ships.
The Zorg's voyage was driven by disease and greed, leading to the jettisoning of enslaved people for insurance claims and rise of abolitionist movements in England.