The Zorg , by Siddharth Kara (St. Martin’s) . In this harrowing history, Kara, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, tells the story of the Zorg, a merchant vessel that the British captured from the Dutch in 1781. When the ship went off course during a voyage from Africa’s Gold Coast to Jamaica, it ran out of water; the crew then chose to throw more than a third of the four hundred and forty-two enslaved people on board into the sea. Kara also recounts the journey’s aftermath—the attempt by the ship’s owners to collect insurance money in compensation for the dead, and the heroic campaign of Granville Sharp, a former clerk for the Board of Ordnance, whose efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice marked a critical moment in Britain’s abolitionist movement.

A Hollywood Ending , by Yaro

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