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Larry Gonick is a renowned cartoonist and Harvard graduate in mathematics. He has written many non-fiction graphic novels that address topics such as history and science (Gonick, 2016). The cartoon Free Trade by Larry Gonick (2006) is partially accurate. This paper explores the British slave ship Zong and the court case that followed the massacre of the slaves aboard, the abolition campaign of the transatlantic slave trade with two of its actors, Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce, as well as the role of the Haitian Revolution in the abolition of the slave trade. The cartoon addresses the British slave ship Zong and the legal battle that arose after the slaves on board were massacred. The cartoon Free Trade explains that in 1782, the slave ship Zong, with hundreds of slaves on board, went …show more content…

Therefore, the owners would receive insurance money since that measure was taken to save the ship (Gonick, 2006). According to other sources, the Zong ship, which was transporting 470 enslaved Africans and seventeen white shipmen, had indeed been hit by disease, and more than a dozen of the seaman as well as sixty Africans passed away. Thus, the crew members found themselves in a difficult situation since the water on the ship became scarce, as said in the cartoon. Therefore, Collingwood proposed throwing overboard about a hundred of the enslaved Africans since they were believed to be sick, feeble, or about to die; therefore, it was not all the remaining alive ones as the cartoon specified, but only a part of them. He also mentioned that the insurance contract for the ship had a jettison provision, which specified that the insurance company would assume the financial loss if the captain was compelled to discard some of the cargo to preserve the

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