Zong!
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Zong!
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Zong! is a 2008 book-length poem by Canadian writer M. NourbeSe Philip. The work was first published in the U.S. by Wesleyan University Press and by The Mercury Press in Canada. Phillip has frequently staged full-length readings of the poem internationally as performance art. The poem focuses on victims of the Zong massacre, approximately 150 enslaved Africans who were murdered for insurance purposes in 1781. Reaction to the massacre and the lawsuits surrounding the case would propel the British
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2008 book-length poem by M. NourbeSe Philip
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zong!
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2022-10-31T14:43:30Z
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