The last straw for the British government was the tragedy that occurred on an english ship, Zong, which set sail from Africa to Britain in the September of 1781. The end of slavery in Britain occurred not too long afterwards. African men, women, and children were bordered onto the ship only to soon fall ill due malnutrition and disease. In response, the captain of the ship, Luke Collingwood, decided to throw 132 sick Africans overboard. It turned out that he purposely withheld water and food supplies as a part of his plan to file an insurance claim for the loss of the slaves. Granville Sharp, a Britain abolitionist, attempted to press criminal charges against everyone involved in the Zong massacre, but the Solicitor General of Great Britain,
