(Re)writing the (His)story of the Zong

Denisa Vitova
21 min readSep 30, 2019

In Feeding the Ghosts, a man reimagines women’s suffering during the Transatlantic slave trade — and with more accuracy than female slave writers ever could.

“[I]f the black man is silenced in history, what is the nature of the censure of the…

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Denisa Vitova

BA in Literature and Linguistics, MA in Creative Writing. Published by The London Magazine, Ambit, Firewords, The Moth and others. Now works in media.