M. Nourbese Philip
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review 1: Philip sets out to capture in poetry the "story that cannot be told" of the massacre of at least 150 Africans aboard a Dutch slave trader called the "Zorg" (mistakenly recast as the "Zong" later on) in 1781. When the captain of the ship started losing slaves to illness and dehydr...