On This Day: The Zong Massacre and the Lord Chief Justice
The crew of the Zong had thrown at least 142 captive Africans into the sea, but the question before the court was not who had committed this atrocity
The crew of the Zong had thrown at least 142 captive Africans into the sea, but the question before the court was not who had committed this atrocity
Today in history (1841), the United States Supreme Court ruled on Amistad slave ship mutiny case with only one dissent, that the enslaved Africans who seized control of the Amistad slave ship had been illegally forced into slavery, and thus are free under American law.