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The slave ship was the instrument of history's greatest forced migration and a key to the origins and growth of global capitalism, yet much of its history remains unknown. Marcus Rediker uncovers the extraordinary human drama that played out on this world-changing vessel. Drawing on thirty years of maritime research, he demonstrates the truth of W.E.B DuBois's observation: the slave trade was 'the most magnificent drama in the last thousand years of human history'.
The Slave Ship focuses on the so-called 'golden age' of the slave trade, the period of 1700-1808, when more than six million people were transported out of Africa, most of them on British and American ships, across the Atlantic, to slave on New World plantations. Marcus Rediker tells poignant tales of life, death and terror as he captures the shipboard drama of brutal discipline and fierce resistance. He reconstructs the lives of individuals, such as John Newton, James Field Stanfield and Olaudah Equiano, and the collective experience of captains, sailors and slaves. Mindful of the haunting legacies of race, class and slavery, Marcus Rediker offers a vivid and unforgettable portrait of the ghost ship of our modern consciousness.
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'A shockingly vivid work . . . from a gifted chronicler of history's lower decks, at home in the unruly Atlantic world of pirates, slavers, sailors, runaways and rebels' (Boyd Tonkin, Independent)
'Enlightening and moving . . . Rediker comes closer than anyone so far to recreating the horrifying social reality of the Atlantic slave ship . . . If anyone doubts the reality of that human story, they only need to read Rediker's book' (James Walvin, BBC History Magazine)
'Meticulously researched . . . a terrible tale told here with great skill, clarity and compassion' (Siobhan Murphy, Metro)
'The slave ship is a powerful focus for a profound drama' (Iain Finlayson, The Times)
'A brilliantly organised and compelling study of the Atlantic slave trade . . . A truly magnificent book' (Sunday Telegraph)
'The Slave Ship provides eloquent testimony to the high human drama of Atlantic 'trafficking'; the greed of the few and the manifold misery of the many that was endured in the trivial cause of sweetness' (Ian Thomson, Spectator)
'Rediker has made magnificent use of archival data; his probing, compassionate eye turns up numerous finds that other people who've written on the subject, myself included, have missed' (Adam Hochschild, International Herald Tribune)
'Rediker has produced a gripping study of one aspect of a great evil' (Sunday Herald)
'I admire this book more than I can easily say. In range and scope and fullness of treatment and in the humaneness of its scrutiny, this account of the Atlantic slave trade is unlikely ever to be superseded' (Barry Unsworth, author of SACRED HUNGER)
'I was hardly prepared for the profound emotional impact of THE SLAVE SHIP. Reading it established a transformative and never to be severed bond with my African ancestors who were cargo in slave ships over a period of four centuries. Their courage, intelligence and self-respect; their fierce efforts to free themselves (and, though cruelly bound, to create community) moved me so deeply that, for several days, I took to my bed. There I pondered the madness of greed, the sadism of wielding absolute power over any creature in chains, the violence of attempting to dominate and possess what is innately free. For all Americans and indeed all who live in the Western world who have profited by, or suffered from, the endless brutality of the slave trade, during all its centuries and into the present, this book is homework of the most insistent order. There is no rebalancing of our wrecked planet without sitting with, and absorbing, the horrifying reality of what was done, by whites, (Alice Walker, author of THE COLOUR OF PURPLE)
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'Enlightening and moving . . . Rediker comes closer than anyone so far to recreating the horrifying social reality of the Atlantic slave ship . . . If anyone doubts the reality of that human story, they only need to read Rediker's book' (James Walvin, BBC History Magazine)
'Meticulously researched . . . a terrible tale told here with great skill, clarity and compassion' (Siobhan Murphy, Metro)
'The slave ship is a powerful focus for a profound drama' (Iain Finlayson, The Times)
'A brilliantly organised and compelling study of the Atlantic slave trade . . . A truly magnificent book' (Sunday Telegraph)
'The Slave Ship provides eloquent testimony to the high human drama of Atlantic 'trafficking'; the greed of the few and the manifold misery of the many that was endured in the trivial cause of sweetness' (Ian Thomson, Spectator)
'Rediker has made magnificent use of archival data; his probing, compassionate eye turns up numerous finds that other people who've written on the subject, myself included, have missed' (Adam Hochschild, International Herald Tribune)
'Rediker has produced a gripping study of one aspect of a great evil' (Sunday Herald)
'I admire this book more than I can easily say. In range and scope and fullness of treatment and in the humaneness of its scrutiny, this account of the Atlantic slave trade is unlikely ever to be superseded' (Barry Unsworth, author of SACRED HUNGER)
'I was hardly prepared for the profound emotional impact of THE SLAVE SHIP. Reading it established a transformative and never to be severed bond with my African ancestors who were cargo in slave ships over a period of four centuries. Their courage, intelligence and self-respect; their fierce efforts to free themselves (and, though cruelly bound, to create community) moved me so deeply that, for several days, I took to my bed. There I pondered the madness of greed, the sadism of wielding absolute power over any creature in chains, the violence of attempting to dominate and possess what is innately free. For all Americans and indeed all who live in the Western world who have profited by, or suffered from, the endless brutality of the slave trade, during all its centuries and into the present, this book is homework of the most insistent order. There is no rebalancing of our wrecked planet without sitting with, and absorbing, the horrifying reality of what was done, by whites, (Alice Walker, author of THE COLOUR OF PURPLE)
The human drama of the slave trade told from a new perspective, from the decks of the slave ship
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- PublisherJohn Murray
- Publication date2007
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- ISBN 13 9780719563027
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