Essay On Zong

In 1781, a ship called the Zong was a slave ship that was transporting many African slaves to the Caribbean. Through a series of miscalculations, the crew found itself short of water many days before it would reach its destination. In addition to lack of water, the captives had started to become ill, which significantly lowered the price for each of the slaves. Because of this, the captain and crew decided to get rid their human cargo by throwing them overboard and drowning them. To compensate for this loss, they filed an insurance claim to be paid for the lost slaves. The Zong trail that followed was to decide if this case represented insurance fraud, deciding if the crew got rid of the cargo in order to file an insurance claim. In the

These women would be much more likely to hold views similar to the narrator’s mother in Swing Time. Non-white people of were not treated equal to the white British citizens. This racism can be viewed through the color bar that limited the migration of non-white people into Britain. This happened because the whiteness of Britain was threatened during the time of the Second World War. Even with this color bar, Britain had become a multicultural, multiracial society by the 1970s. In addition to banning immigration, for the non-white people in Britain, the experienced racism. An example depicting the experiences is in the short story “My Son the Fanatic” by Hanif Kureishi. Throughout the story, a son and father from India are juxtaposed to show how 1st and 2nd generation immigrants tried to integrate themselves into British society. Although the father and son did this in every different ways, neither could integrate themselves into the society, and both were discriminated against because they were not white citizens of Britain. In this story, the father adopted many aspects of British/ Western culture, while the son rejected western culture and returned to a very traditional India