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The Slave Ship by Marcus Rediker (2007, Hardcover) 
The Slave Ship by Marcus Rediker (2007, Hardcover)

 
The Slave Ship by Marcus Rediker (2007, Hardcover)

Publisher: Viking Pr
Publication Date: 2007-10-04
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0670018236
ISBN-13: 9780670018239
Product ID: EPID60072998
Description: 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 ro...
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Synopsis
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.--From publisher description.

Details
Publication Date:2007-10-04

Size
Length:434 pages
Height:9.3 in
Width:6.3 in
Thickness:1.5 in
Weight:24.0 oz

Publisher's Note
Draws on three decades of research to chart the history of slave ships, their crews, and their enslaved passengers, documenting such stories as those of a young kidnapped African whose slavery is witnessed firsthand by a horrified priest from a neighboring tribe responsible for the slave's capture. 30,000 first printing.

Industry Reviews
"Rediker has made magnificent use of archival data; his probing compassionate eye turns up numerous finds that other people who've written on this subject, myself included, have missed."
(10/21/2007)

"Breathtaking....It is [the] concern with the texture of individual experience, with the minutiae of misery and the ordeal of its endurance, that decides the shape and content of THE SLAVE SHIP....THE SLAVE SHIP is rich with anecdotes--so rich, in fact, that the book never feels anecdotal. Instead, what emerges is a fine-grained account of everyday savagery."
(02/04/2008)

"[A] groundbreaking work....[Rediker] makes fresh use of those who left their mark in written records....He engages the reader in maritime detail...and renders the archival accessible."

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