TY - BOOK AB - 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. AU - Rediker, Marcus. CN - HT1322 CN - HT1322 CY - New York : DA - 2008, c2007. ID - 328445 KW - Slave trade KW - Slaves. KW - Merchant mariners. KW - Race relations. KW - Slave ships N2 - 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. PB - Penguin Books, PP - New York : PY - 2008, c2007. SN - 9780143114253 (pbk.) SN - 0143114255 (pbk.) T1 - The slave ship :a human history / TI - The slave ship :a human history / ER -