The so called ‘killings’ were not a matter of murder or morality
But a question of insurance for property:
Blacks jettisoned to save the lives
Of English crewmen returning home to wives
It is an impertinence to question
The judgement of a captain
So highly regarded
The mere suggestion is folly akin
To throwing him — this upstanding man— overboard
And that would be our sin
We cannot look at with derision
Where the law makes logical provision:
Humans were not thrown overboard
Humans were not murdered
Simply put — a disposal of property was legitimately ordered
And reparations for the loss
Are rightfully due
To the investors and the crew
Nairobi Thompson (c) 2019
The Zong massacre was a mass killing of more than 130 African enslaved people by the crew of the British slaver ship Zong on and in the days following 29 November 1781
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