Domesticated Abolitionism, the “Human Cargo” of the Zong, and the British Legal Usage of Dehumanizing Rhetoric, 1783–1807
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9313616 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marouf Hasian (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 503-519 |
| Publication date | 2012-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Western Journal of Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1057-0314 • E-ISSN: 1745-1027 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10570314.2011.651549 |
| OpenAlex | W2016634163 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 22 |
The essay provides readers with an analysis of the dehumanizing rhetorics that were placed in the path of Granville Sharp during the 1783 debates about the “jettisoning” of 132 slaves from the Zong. The author contends that while Solicitor General Lee and the other counsel for the ship owners openly characterized African slaves as “human cargo,” Lord Mansfield advanced a more ambivalent, and moderate, legal position that was based on the notion of “absolute necessity.” The essay concludes by noting that many contemporaries have forgotten about many of the legal interpretations of insurance contracts that hindered the sentimentalists
Abolitionism · Ambivalence · Amnesty · Dehumanization · Economics · Human rights · Political science · Position (finance · Psychoanalysis · Rhetoric · Seniority · Sociology · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade
New Light on Mansfield and Slavery
Choosing a Medium
The Zong in the Context of the Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade
A Very Uncommon Case’
Martin Dockray and the Zong
Slavery, Insurance and the Law
Insurance Litigation Involving the Zong and Other British Slave Ships, 1780–1807
British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility
Jurisprudence as performance
Condemning Webster
Fanny Fern's 1855 Ruth Hall , the cheerful brutality of capitalism, & the irony of sentimental rhetoric
Like gory spectres”
The Zong and the Lord Chief Justice
Specters of the Atlantic
Victorians and Africans
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2022 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |