In 1781 the captain of the slave ship, Zong, murders, by drowning, one hundred and fifty Africans so as to collect insurance monies. Through fragments of voices, shreds of memory and shards …

Zong! is a 2008 book-length poem by Canadian writer M. NourbeSe Philip. The work was first published in the U.S. by Wesleyan University Press and by The Mercury Press in Canada. …

The story of the eighteenth-century slave ship Zong is one that continues to haunt the imaginations of artists and writers.

Nov 29, 2021 · In November 1781, a massacre began on the Zong slave ship. The tragedy inspired the Canadian poem Zong! by M. NourbeSe Philip. She reflects on the mass murder, …

Zong! selections for readings. PDFs to read on your personal device during collective readings of Zong! Zong! excerpts.! Website by Floating Tree based on Wordpress Twenty Twelve.

evidence is sustenance is support is the law the ship is the captain is the crew perils is the trial is the rains is the seas is the currents jamaica is tobago is islands the case is murder …

Sep 10, 2022 · Zong (Ship) -- Poetry, Zong (Ship), Slaves -- Crimes against ... Os; Sal; Ventus; Ratio; Ferrum; Ebora; Glossary: Words and Phrases Heard on Board the Zong; Manifest; …

Gilbert, the formal name of the case more colloquially known as the Zong case, is the text I rely on to create the poems of Zong! To not tell the story that must be told.

Zong!, the poem, is composed entirely from the words of the found text, Gregson vs. Gilbert. Through fragments of voices, shreds of memory and shards of silence, Zong! unravels the …

Feb 11, 2014 · NourbeSe Philip’s collection of poems entitled Zong! seeks to respond to this aim by emulating the thoughts and experiences of slaves aboard the ship and beginning to work …