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Z_FM mercury_clifford 7/7/08 10:49 AM Page i Zong! As told to the authorby SETAEY ADAMU BOATENG Z_FM mercury_clifford 7/7/08 10:49 AM Page ii OTHER BOOKS BY M. NOURBESE PHILIP POETRY Thorns Salmon Courage She Tries HerTongue;HerSilence SoftlyBreaks ESSAYS Frontiers:Essays andWritings on Racism andCulture AGenealogyofResistance Showing Grit NOVELS Harriet’sDaughter(foryoung adults) Looking forLivingstone:An OdysseyofSilence PLAYS Coups andCalypsos Z_FM mercury_clifford 7/7/08 10:49 AM Page iii Zong! As told to the author by SETAEY ADAMU BOATENG by M. NourbeSe Philip the mercury press toronto Philip_ZONG (pa) revised fm:Layout 1 6/9/11 2:31 PM Page iv Published by Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT 06459 www.wesleyan.edu/wespress © 2008 by M. NourbeSe Philip All rights reserved First Wesleyan paperback 2011 Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1 isbn for the paperback edition: 978–0–8195–7169–4 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Philip, Marlene NourbeSe, 1947– Zong! / M. NourbeSe Philip as told to the author by Setaey Adamu Boateng. p. cm. isbn-13: 978–0–8195–6876–2 (alk. paper) isbn-10: 0–8195–6876–7 (alk. paper) I.Title. pr9199.3.p456z662008 811'.54—dc222007052378 This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts Wesleyan University Press is a member of the Green Press Initiative. The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper. Z_FM mercury_clifford 7/7/08 10:49 AM Page v ForLord Yeates, Ti Miss Maam,& the many,manyothers. Also forKudakwashe. Z_FM mercury_clifford 7/7/08 10:49 AM Page vi This page intentionally left blank Z_FM mercury_clifford 7/7/08 10:49 AM Page vii Though theygo mad theyshall be sane, Though theysinkthrough the sea theyshall rise again ... dylan thomas,And Death Shall Have No Dominion The time is out of joint.O cursèd spite That everI was born to set it right! shakespeare,Hamlet Z_FM mercury_clifford 7/7/08 10:49 AM Page viii This page intentionally left blank Z_FM mercury_clifford 7/7/08 10:49 AM Page ix Contents Acknowledgments xi Os 1 Sal 57 Ventus 77 Ratio 99 Ferrum 125 Ebora 175 . . Glossary:Words andPhrases Heard 183 on Boardthe Zong Manifest 185 Notanda 187 Gregson v.Gilbert 210
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