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TIL that after fabricating a water shortage for insurance fraud in 1781, the crew of the slave ship Zong threw over 130 enslaved people overboard, and the owners later filed an insurance claim for...
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Link: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2021/jan/19/the-story-of-the-zong-slave-ship-a-mass-masquerading-as-an-insurance-claim
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Original Title: TIL that after fabricating a water shortage for insurance fraud in 1781, the crew of the slave ship Zong threw over 130 enslaved people overboard, and the owners later filed an insurance claim for the lost "cargo," sparking a landmark legal battle that fuelled the British abolition movement.
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