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"A book of great importance and one that will likely become a classic." -
New York Times Book Review
A
Time Magazine
Must-Read Book of 2025
From the Pulitzer Finalist and
New York Times
bestselling author of
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Perfect for fans of David Grann’s
The Wager
and
The Wide, Wide Sea
by Hampton Sides
In 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
Zorg
(a Dutch word meaning “care”) was one of thousands of such ships, but the harrowing events that ensued on its doomed journey were unique.
By the time its journey ends, the
would become the first undeniable argument against slavery.
When a series of unpredictable weather events and navigational errors led to the
sailing off course and running low on supplies, the ship's captain threw more than a hundred slaves overboard in order to save the crew and the most valuable slaves. The ship's owners then claimed their loss on insurance, a first for slaves who had not been killed due to insurrection or died of natural causes.
The insurers refused to pay due to the higher than usual mortality rate of the slaves on board, leading to a trial which initially found in their favor, in which the Chief Justice compared the slaves to horses. Thanks to the outrage of one man present in court that day, a retrial was held. For the first time, concepts such as human rights and morality entered the discourse on slavery in a courtroom case that boiled down to a simple yet profound question: Were the Africans on board people or cargo?
What 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
catapulted 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.
The Zorg
is the astonishing yet little-known true story of the most consequential ship that ever crossed the Atlantic.
New York Times Book Review
A
Time Magazine
Must-Read Book of 2025
From the Pulitzer Finalist and
New York Times
bestselling author of
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Perfect for fans of David Grann’s
The Wager
and
The Wide, Wide Sea
by Hampton Sides
In 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
Zorg
(a Dutch word meaning “care”) was one of thousands of such ships, but the harrowing events that ensued on its doomed journey were unique.
By the time its journey ends, the
would become the first undeniable argument against slavery.
When a series of unpredictable weather events and navigational errors led to the
sailing off course and running low on supplies, the ship's captain threw more than a hundred slaves overboard in order to save the crew and the most valuable slaves. The ship's owners then claimed their loss on insurance, a first for slaves who had not been killed due to insurrection or died of natural causes.
The insurers refused to pay due to the higher than usual mortality rate of the slaves on board, leading to a trial which initially found in their favor, in which the Chief Justice compared the slaves to horses. Thanks to the outrage of one man present in court that day, a retrial was held. For the first time, concepts such as human rights and morality entered the discourse on slavery in a courtroom case that boiled down to a simple yet profound question: Were the Africans on board people or cargo?
What 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
catapulted 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.
The Zorg
is the astonishing yet little-known true story of the most consequential ship that ever crossed the Atlantic.
"A book of great importance and one that will likely become a classic." -
New York Times Book Review
A
Time Magazine
Must-Read Book of 2025
From the Pulitzer Finalist and
New York Times
bestselling author of
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Perfect for fans of David Grann’s
The Wager
and
The Wide, Wide Sea
by Hampton Sides
In 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
Zorg
(a Dutch word meaning “care”) was one of thousands of such ships, but the harrowing events that ensued on its doomed journey were unique.
By the time its journey ends, the
would become the first undeniable argument against slavery.
When a series of unpredictable weather events and navigational errors led to the
sailing off course and running low on supplies, the ship's captain threw more than a hundred slaves overboard in order to save the crew and the most valuable slaves. The ship's owners then claimed their loss on insurance, a first for slaves who had not been killed due to insurrection or died of natural causes.
The insurers refused to pay due to the higher than usual mortality rate of the slaves on board, leading to a trial which initially found in their favor, in which the Chief Justice compared the slaves to horses. Thanks to the outrage of one man present in court that day, a retrial was held. For the first time, concepts such as human rights and morality entered the discourse on slavery in a courtroom case that boiled down to a simple yet profound question: Were the Africans on board people or cargo?
What 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
catapulted 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.
The Zorg
is the astonishing yet little-known true story of the most consequential ship that ever crossed the Atlantic.
New York Times Book Review
A
Time Magazine
Must-Read Book of 2025
From the Pulitzer Finalist and
New York Times
bestselling author of
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Perfect for fans of David Grann’s
The Wager
and
The Wide, Wide Sea
by Hampton Sides
In 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
Zorg
(a Dutch word meaning “care”) was one of thousands of such ships, but the harrowing events that ensued on its doomed journey were unique.
By the time its journey ends, the
would become the first undeniable argument against slavery.
When a series of unpredictable weather events and navigational errors led to the
sailing off course and running low on supplies, the ship's captain threw more than a hundred slaves overboard in order to save the crew and the most valuable slaves. The ship's owners then claimed their loss on insurance, a first for slaves who had not been killed due to insurrection or died of natural causes.
The insurers refused to pay due to the higher than usual mortality rate of the slaves on board, leading to a trial which initially found in their favor, in which the Chief Justice compared the slaves to horses. Thanks to the outrage of one man present in court that day, a retrial was held. For the first time, concepts such as human rights and morality entered the discourse on slavery in a courtroom case that boiled down to a simple yet profound question: Were the Africans on board people or cargo?
What 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
catapulted 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.
The Zorg
is the astonishing yet little-known true story of the most consequential ship that ever crossed the Atlantic.
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