@article{328445, author = {Rediker, Marcus.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/328445}, title = {The slave ship : a human history /}, publisher = {Penguin Books,}, abstract = {For more than three centuries, slave ships carried millions of people from the coasts of Africa to the New World. Here, award-winning historian Rediker creates a detailed history of these vessels and the human drama acted out on their rolling decks. Rediker restores the slave ship to its rightful place alongside the plantation as a formative institution of slavery, as a place where a profound and still haunting history of race, class, and modern capitalism was made.}, recid = {328445}, pages = {434 p., [16] p. of plates :}, address = {New York :}, year = {2008}, }