The Slave Ship

A Human History

• Author(s): Marcus Rediker,
• Publisher: Penguin
• Pages: 448
• ISBN_10: 1440620849
  ISBN_13: 9781440620843
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / African American & Black , Social Science / Slavery , History / United States / General ,

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.