The slave ship : a human history / Marcus Rediker.
Rediker, Marcus.
2008
HT1322 .R42 2008 (Mapit)
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The slave ship : a human history / Marcus Rediker.
Author
Rediker, Marcus.
ISBN
9780143114253 (pbk.)
0143114255 (pbk.)
9780670018239
0670018236
Publication Details
New York : Penguin Books, 2008, c2007.
Language
English
Description
434 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Call Number
HT1322 .R42 2008
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-415) and index.
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Introduction
Life, death, and terror in the slave trade
The evolution of the slave ship
African paths to the middle passage
Olaudah Equiano: astonishment and terror
James Field Stanfield and the floating dungeon
John Newton and the peaceful kingdom
The captain's own hell
The sailor's vast machine
From captives to shipmates
The long voyage of the slave ship Brooks
Epilogue: endless passage
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Illustration sources and credits.

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