On this day — November 29 in African history

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The crew of the British slave ship Zong murdered more than 130 enslaved Africans by throwing them overboard, an atrocity whose subsequent insurance trial became a rallying point for the British abolitionist movement.

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William V. S. Tubman, who became Liberia's longest-serving president and is remembered as the "father of modern Liberia," was born in Harper.