{"title":"Slavery","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-zorg-a-tale-of-greed-and-murder-that-inspired-the-abolition-of-slavery","title":"The Zorg:  A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eFrom Pulitzer finalist and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebestselling author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCobalt Red:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eA notorious slave ship incident that led to the abolition of slavery in the UK and sparked the US abolitionist movement\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIn late October 1780, a slave ship set sail from the Netherlands, bound for Africa’s Windward and Gold Coasts, where it would take on its human cargo. The\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eZorg\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(a Dutch word meaning “care”) was one of thousands of such ships, but the harrowing events that ensued on its doomed journey were unique.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter reaching Africa, the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eZorg\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ewas captured by a privateer and came under British command. With a new captain and crew, the ship was crammed with 442 slaves and departed in 1781 for Jamaica. But a series of unpredictable weather events and mistakes in navigation left the ship drastically off course and running out of water. So a proposition was put forth: Save the crew and the most valuable of the slaves—by throwing dozens of people, starting with women and children, overboard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat followed was a fascinating legal drama in England’s highest court that turned the brutal calculus of slavery into front-page news. The case of the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eZorg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecatapulted the nascent anti-slavery movement from a minor evangelical cause to one of the most consequential moral campaigns in history—sparking the abolitionist movement in both England and the young United States\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSiddharth Kara utilizes primary-source research, gripping storytelling, and painstaking investigation to uncover the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eZorg\u003c\/i\u003e’s journey, the lives and fates of the slaves on board, and the mysterious identity of the abolitionist who finally revealed the truth of what happened on the ship.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50759024083224,"sku":"9781250348227","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/2852\/6872\/files\/9781250348227_6989e.jpg?v=1760459765"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.clearysbookstore.com\/collections\/slavery.oembed","provider":"Cleary's Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}