
06/04/2025
In 1781, the British slave ship Zong carried over 470 enslaved Africans across the Atlantic. When sickness and dwindling supplies threatened profits, the crew murdered 133 people by throwing them overboard—later filing an insurance claim for their lost 'cargo. This atrocity, exposed in the 1783 court case Gregson v. Gilbert, became a rallying cry for abolition.
The Zong massacre reminds us: colonialism commodified human life, but it could never extinguish resistance. At Ubuntu Broadcasting, we honor those stolen ancestors by unearthing hidden histories and amplifying voices of justice. Their truth lives in our memory. Their fight continues in ours.