Insurance vs The British Abolition Movement  

What happens when an insurance case sparks the beginning of a national movement? Join me for the second episode of my series on Insurance and Slavery, where I talk about British Abolition, the Massacre on the Slave Ship Zong, and Lord Mansfield’s insistence on NOT talking about slavery.

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Selected Sources and Links:

·         The "Somerset" Effect: Parsing Lord Mansfield's Words on Slavery in Nineteenth Century America. Derek A Webb, Law and History Review, August 2014, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 455-490 

·         How Ideology Works: Historians and the Case of British Abolitionism. William Palmer, The Historical Journal, December 2009, Vol 52, No 4, pp 1039-1051

·         Granville Sharp’s manuscript letter to the admiralty on the Zong massacre: a New discovery in the British Library, Michelle Faubert, Slavery and Abolition, 2017 Vol 38., No 1., 178-195

·         A Chain of Murder in the Slave Trade: A Wider Context of the Zong Massacre, Jeremy Krikler, IRSH 57 (2012) pp 393-415

·         Insuring the Transatlantic Slave Trade Pearson, Robin and Richardson, David Journal of Economic History Volume 79, Issue 2, June 2019 pp 417-446

·         Insurance Litigation Involving the Zong and Other British Slave Ships, 1780-1807. Oldham, James

·         The Zong in the Context of the Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade. Webster, Jane, The Journal of Legal History, Vol 28, No. 3, December 2007, pp 285-298

Books:

·         Black Ivory: Slavery in the British Empire: Walvin, James: 9780631229599: Amazon.com: Books

o   Walvin has a lot of books about slavery, and I would consider him to be a good entry point for someone who hasn’t read a lot about the topic. 

·         The Zong: A Massacre, the Law and the End of Slavery a book by James Walvin (bookshop.org)

·         Lord Mansfield: Justice in the Age of Reason a book by Norman S Poser (bookshop.org)

·         The Slave Ship: A Human History a book by Marcus Rediker (bookshop.org)

·         Econocide: British Slavery in the Era of Abolition a book by Seymour Drescher and David Brion Davis (bookshop.org)

·         Amazon.com: The Interest: 9781529110982: Michael Taylor: Books

·         Great Abolition Sham: Jordan, Michael: 9780750934909: Amazon.com: Books

·         Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History a book by Ian Baucom

o   This is a great book, but it is more about philosophy than history. Read at your own risk.

Documentaries/Television:

·         Amazing Grace (2006) - IMDb

o   Rotten score 68 tomatometer and 85 popcornmeter

·         Belle (2013) - IMDb

o   Rotten Score: 85 tomatometer and 82 popcornmeter

o   Note that this movie’s plot about the Zong is entirely fictional.

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