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   * "None of the murderers were ever prosecuted." ((London Museum, “Did the Zong Massacre help end slavery?" https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/london-stories/zong-massacre-trial/, para. 2))    * "None of the murderers were ever prosecuted." ((London Museum, “Did the Zong Massacre help end slavery?" https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/london-stories/zong-massacre-trial/, para. 2)) 
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-One of the strongest themes in Zong! #14 and Zong! #15 is resistance. M. NourbeSe Philip uses poetry to fight back against how enslaved people were treated—as objects, not as human beings. By using phrases like “the subject in property” and “ratio of murder,” she shows how the legal system tried to hide violence using cold, technical words. The way the poem is written—scattered, broken, and full of space—is also a form of resistance. It doesn’t follow the usual rules of writing or storytelling. That is on purpose. Philip refuses to tell the story the way history books or legal papers do. She creates her own language of resistance to show pain, injustice, and protest. Philip refuses to tell the story in the way that history books or court records might. Instead of that, she writes outside those systems, creating a poetic language that exposes injustice and protests the silence that followed.+One of the strongest themes in Zong! #14 and Zong! #15 is resistance. M. NourbeSe Philip uses poetry to fight back against how enslaved people were treated—as objects, not as human beings. By using phrases like “the subject in property” and “ratio of murder,” she shows how the legal system tried to hide violence using cold, technical words. The way the poem is written—scattered, broken, and full of space—is also a form of resistance. It doesn’t follow the usual rules of writing or storytelling. That is on purpose. Philip refuses to tell the story the way history books or legal papers do. She creates her own language of resistance to show pain, injustice, and protest. Philip refuses to tell the story in the way that history books or court records might. Instead, she writes outside those systems, creating a poetic language that exposes injustice and protests the silence that followed.
  
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