how were the africans thrown in labourship by Europeans ?
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The Zong massacre was the mass killing of more than 130 African slaves by the crew of the British slave ship Zong on and in the days following 29 November 1781.[a] The Gregson slave-trading syndicate, based in 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 drinking water following navigational mistakes, the crew threw slaves overboard into the sea to drown, in part 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 water.
The labourship of Africans people for free was known as slavery.
France owned some colonies in the carrabean like the San Domingo Island.
In these islands plantations were set up of tea or coffee.
But French people were not ready to go and work on far and unknown land.
This led to triangular slave trade between Africa, America and France.
The French sailed from the cities of Bordeaux and Nantes to the coast of West Africa. Large numbers of African Negroes were tightly packed into ships and sailed the Atlantic Ocean to reach colonies of France.
In the rule of Maximilian Robespierre, slavery was banned in France . But after some years Napoleon reintroduced slavery.