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<!--The '''''Zong'' massacre''' was the mass murder of 133&nbsp;African [[Servitus|slaves]] by the crew of the slave ship ''Zong'' in the days following 29&nbsp;November 1781.<ref group="note">The exact number of deaths is unknown but James Kelsall (''Zong''&#x27;s first mate) later said that "the outside number of drowned amounted to 142 in the whole" (quoted in Lewis 2007, p. 364).</ref> The Gregson slave-trading syndicate, based in [[Liverpolium|Liverpool]], owned the ship and sailed her in the Atlantic slave trade. As was common business practice, they had taken out insurance on the lives of the slaves as cargo. When the ship ran low on potable water following navigational mistakes, the crew threw slaves overboard into the sea to drown, partly in order to ensure the survival of the rest of the ship's passengers, and in part to cash in on the insurance on the slaves, thus not losing money on the slaves who would have died from the lack of drinking water.