Description
"Masterly."--Adam Hochschild, The New York Times Book Review In this widely praised history of an infamous institution, award-winning scholar Marcus Rediker shines a light into the darkest corners of the British and American slave ships of the eighteenth century. Drawing on thirty years of research in maritime archives, court records, diaries, and firsthand accounts, The Slave Ship is riveting and sobering in its revelations, reconstructing in chilling detail a world nearly lost to history: the floating dungeons at the forefront of the birth of African American culture.
Author: Marcus Rediker
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 10/01/2008
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 8.34h x 5.48w x 1.02d
ISBN13: 9780143114253
ISBN10: 0143114255
BISAC Categories:
- History | African American & Black
- Transportation | Ships & Shipbuilding | History
- Social Science | Slavery
Author: Marcus Rediker
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 10/01/2008
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 8.34h x 5.48w x 1.02d
ISBN13: 9780143114253
ISBN10: 0143114255
BISAC Categories:
- History | African American & Black
- Transportation | Ships & Shipbuilding | History
- Social Science | Slavery
About the Author
Marcus Rediker is the Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh and the award-winning author of The Slave Ship. He lives in Pittsburgh.