The Slave Ship: A Human History
For more than three centuries, slave ships carried millions of people from the coasts of Africa to the New World. In The Slave Ship, award-winning historian Marcus Rediker creates an unprecedented history of these vessels and the human drama acted out on their rolling decks. Rediker restores the...
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For more than three centuries, slave ships carried millions of people from the coasts of Africa to the New World. In The Slave Ship, award-winning historian Marcus Rediker creates an unprecedented 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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143114253 (0143114255)
Publish date: September 30th 2008
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
Cultural,
Africa,
American History,
Military History,
Civil War,
World History,
Grad School,
Maritime,
Race,
Labor
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