Why King Charles Won’t Apologize for Slavery
In 1783, Lord Mansfield, England’s Lord Chief Justice, ruled on the Zong case, named after the ship that cast 142 enslaved Africans overboard and then submitted a claim on cargo insurance. Mansfield effectively had to answer the question, “Can human beings be cargo?” In the event, Mansfield ordered another trial and so avoided confronting a… Continue reading Why King Charles Won’t Apologize for Slavery
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