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"Masterly." - Adam Hochschild, The New York Times Book ReviewIn 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.
About the Author
Marcus Rediker is Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh and Senior Research Fellow at the Collège d'études mondiales in Paris. He is the author of numerous prize-winning books, including *The Many-Headed Hydra* (with Peter Linebaugh) , *The Slave Ship*, and *The Amistad Rebellion*. He produced the award-winning documentary film *Ghosts of Amistad* (Tony Buba, director) , about the popular memory of the *Amistad* rebellion of 1839 in contemporary Sierra Leone.Photo credit Curtis Reaves.
