The captain gave the order; 54 Africans were chained together, then thrown overboard. Another 78 were drowned over the next two days. By the time the ship had reached the Caribbean,132 persons had ...

In 1781 the crew of the Zong slave ship threw 132 enslaved Africans overboard to their deaths, after running low on water supplies. ... Under the command of an inexperienced captain, ...