Disastrous ocean voyages are the stuff of best sellers—think David Grann’s The Wager and Sophie Elmhirst’s A Marriage at Sea —but none carry the social and historical weight of The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery. Siddharth Kara, a Pulitzer finalist for his investigative debut, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives, now turns his talents to a horrific tragedy whose aftermath transformed the court of public opinion. In 1781, the Zorg, an