Zong massacre case

GPTKB entity

Statements (22)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:law
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs Gregson v Gilbert
gptkbp:date 1783
gptkbp:defendant Gilbert (insurers)
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Zong massacre case
gptkbp:includesEvent murder of enslaved Africans
gptkbp:influenced abolitionist movement in Britain
gptkbp:judge gptkb:Lord_Mansfield
gptkb:Court_of_King's_Bench
gptkbp:location gptkb:England
gptkbp:plaintiff Gregson (shipowners)
gptkbp:referencedIn British abolitionist campaigns
Olaudah Equiano's writings
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Zong_massacre
gptkbp:result case sent for retrial
no criminal charges for murder
gptkbp:shipsInvolved gptkb:Zong
gptkbp:significance highlighted brutality of transatlantic slave trade
gptkbp:subject insurance claim
gptkbp:victim over 130
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Gregson_v._Gilbert
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7