The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery Format:Hardcover a respectable bank officer who

a respectable bank officer who is suddenly arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information

He is treated as an outcast by all the royalty except the devious King Shrewd

With such a vast fortune at stake

this book encourages children to think about how things work

The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery Format:Hardcover a respectable bank officer whoFrom Pulitzer finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Cobalt Red: A notorious slave ship incident that led to the abolition of slavery in the UK and sparked the US abolitionist movement In late October 1780, a slave ship set sail from the Netherlands, bound for Africas Windward and Gold Coasts, where it would take on its human cargo. The Zorg (a Dutch word meaning care) was one of thousands of such ships, but the harrowing events that ensued