{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Insurance vs The British Abolition Movement","description":"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\u2019s insistence on NOT talking about slavery. Hire me! Contact insurancevshistory@gmail.com for details. Tip me! See my page at Buy Me a Coffee: Insurance vs History is Exploring all the ways Insurance changed History...or failed to. Selected Sources and Links: \u00b7         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  \u00b7         How Ideology Works: Historians and the Case of British Abolitionism. William Palmer, The Historical Journal, December 2009, Vol 52, No 4, pp 1039-1051 \u00b7         Granville Sharp\u2019s 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 \u00b7         A Chain of Murder in the Slave Trade: A Wider Context of the Zong Massacre, Jeremy Krikler, IRSH 57 (2012) pp 393-415 \u00b7         Insuring the Transatlantic Slave Trade Pearson, Robin and Richardson, David Journal of Economic History Volume 79, Issue 2, June 2019 pp 417-446 \u00b7         Insurance Litigation Involving the Zong and Other British Slave Ships, 1780-1807. Oldham, James \u00b7         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: \u00b7         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\u2019t read a lot about the topic.  \u00b7         The Zong: A Massacre, the Law and the End of Slavery a book by James Walvin (bookshop.org) \u00b7         Lord Mansfield: Justice in the Age of Reason a book by Norman S Poser (bookshop.org) \u00b7         The Slave Ship: A Human History a book by Marcus Rediker (bookshop.org) \u00b7         Econocide: British Slavery in the Era of Abolition a book by Seymour Drescher and David Brion Davis (bookshop.org) \u00b7         Amazon.com: The Interest: 9781529110982: Michael Taylor: Books \u00b7         Great Abolition Sham: Jordan, Michael: 9780750934909: Amazon.com: Books \u00b7         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: \u00b7         Amazing Grace (2006) - IMDb o   Rotten score 68 tomatometer and 85 popcornmeter \u00b7         Belle (2013) - IMDb o   Rotten Score: 85 tomatometer and 82 popcornmeter o   Note that this movie\u2019s plot about the Zong is entirely fictional. Music Credits: Boulangerie by Jeremy Sherman, courtesy of NeoSounds: Boulangerie, LynneMusic | NeoSounds music library Contact Me: Website: https:\/\/insurancevshistory.libsyn.com Contact me!  Email: insurancevshistory@gmail.com Instagram: @ insurancevshistory Facebook:  Insurance vs History | Facebook ","author_name":"Insurance Vs History","author_url":"https:\/\/insurancevshistory.com\/","html":"