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Mintah--one of the hundred African slaves thrown off a ship--climbs back aboard, where she hides and taunts the crew responsible for the demise of her shipmates
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The Zong was a real slave ship where slaves were tossed overboard due to disease in 1781. D'Aguiar says, "I came across an exhibit of a slave ship at The Maritime Museum in Liverpool.... A document at the gallery mentioned the Zong... one of the slaves who was thrown overboard managed to climb back on board. This contradicts the captain's claims that the slaves he threw away were too sick to survive the crossing." This incident, which provided inspiration for Feeding the Ghosts, also inspired a painting by J.M.W. Turner called "The Slave Ship."
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D'Aguiar is the author of The Longest Memory and winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award.
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- PublisherEcco Pr
- Publication date1997
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