About the Book: In The Zorg, Pulitzer Prize finalist Siddharth Kara uncovers the horrifying true story of an 18th-century slave ship whose voyage exposed the brutal realities of the Atlantic slave trade. In 1781, more than a hundred enslaved Africans were thrown overboard, sparking a landmark insurance trial that challenged the treatment of human beings as cargo. This gripping work of narrative history explores slavery, human rights, racial injustice and the origins of the abolitionist movement. A powerful account of a pivotal legal case that helped transform public opinion and advance the fight to end the transatlantic slave trade.