History professor marcus rediker lectured during a course on colonial america at the university of pittsburgh. The slave ship was the instrument of historys greatest forced migration and a key to the origins and growth of global capitalism, yet much of its history remains unknown. This book traces the tale of the slave from capture, through a torturous journey across africa and the final chapter, transported across the atlantic ending in the beginning of hell to millions of black africans. Awardwinning historian rediker creates an unprecedented history of slave ships and the human drama acted out on their rolling decks.
He is the author of numerous prizewinning books, including the manyheaded hydra with peter linebaugh, the slave ship, and the amistad rebellion. Life, death, and terror in the slave trade chapter two. Much is known of the slave trade and the american plantation system, but little of the ships that made it all possible. A human history how this relates to global history a brief summary secondary theses the slave ship and its social relations have shaped the modern world, but their history remains in many was unknown rediker, 10. A human history, african diaspora archaeology newsletter.
A human history examines the floating dungeons that transported millions of africans to the americas. She was universally respected by the ships company. Read the slave ship a human history by marcus rediker available from rakuten kobo. Sep 18, 2008 the slave ship was the instrument of historys greatest forced migration and a key to the origins and growth of global capitalism, yet much of its history remains unknown. A human history by marcus rediker find, read and cite all. In this book marcus rediker engages with the historiography of slavery by examining the ways in which slave ships shaped and were shaped by the slave trade. Rediker describes how slave ship captains and members of. The slave ship was a machine that manufactured modernity. Pdf on mar 1, 2010, dennis moore and others published colloquy with marcus rediker on the slave ship. Marcus rediker born in owensboro, kentucky, in 1951, to buford and faye rediker, the first of their two sons. Review of the slave ship by marcus rediker the lakefront. In his book he documents the history of the american and british slave ships of the 18th century that. In this widely praised history of an infamous institution, awardwinning scholar marcus rediker shines a light into the darkest corners of the british and american. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone.
Marcus rediker uncovers the extraordinary human drama that played out on this worldchanging vessel. By 1807, more than ninemillion africans in shackles, manacles, neck. Sep 29, 2016 interesting, rediker writes that the slave ship crystalized the creation of the white race. Marcus rediker the new chairman of the pitt history department is an acknowledged master of maritime life in the 1700s and has written previous books on merchant seamen, naval crewmen and pirates.
Marcus rediker born 1951 in owensboro, kentucky is an american professor, historian, writer, and activist for a variety of peace and social justice causes. The slave ship ebook by marcus rediker rakuten kobo. The slave ship by marcus redikercombining an expert maritime historians knowledge with the power of primary sources says lucy scholes. Rediker was also an advisor on this summers reboot of roots. Marcus rediker is distinguished professor of atlantic history at the university of pittsburgh and senior research fellow at the college detudes mondiales in paris. The slave ship is the fourth book written by marcus rediker, a prizewinning american historian of the earlymodern era and the atlantic world and a distinguished professor of history at the university of pittsburgh. Marcus rediker is one of two historians of the revolutionary atlantic. Slaveship sailors like butterworth usually detested the captains favorites as they were required to be snitches. As it moved across the atlantic, the world changed. In this eloquent and deeply provocative new book, marcus rediker. He talked about the origins of the slave trade to the americas between 1640 and the.
It joined europe, africa, and the americas, creating enormous wealth and untold misery, and its hellish voyages continue to cast a shadow over our lives. Federici caliban and the witch women, the body and. Marcus rediker talked about his book the slave ship. Dying cry of a slave burned a t the stake, raritan, somerset county, east jersey, 1752, quoted in the newyork gazette and weekly postboy, december 25,1752.
Dive deep into marcus redikers the slave ship with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion. Munson institute of american maritime studies at mystic seaport. At the same time, it is part of a book project that i have been working on since about 2008 and that deals with enslaved women and slaves of an given american and atlantic slave territory and. Historians generally agree that by the end of the crossatlantic slave trade, approximately 14,000,000 men, women and children had been abducted, but only 9,000,000 arrived in the caribbean islands, brazil, the united states, or elsewhere to the west. Federici caliban and the witch women, the body and primitive accumulation free download as pdf file. Oct 21, 2007 it is this rich array of material that marcus rediker plumbs, more thoroughly than anyone else to date, for his masterly new book, the slave ship. In his most recent book, the slave ship, marcus rediker mentions by name some 99 slave ships and often recounts facts and incidents a bout them as one would expect a narrative historian to do. But for the nimble singer and dancer the sailors had the highest esteem. Much is known of the slave trade and the american plantation complex, but little of the ships that made it all possible. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. The recording and web presentation of the lecture were made possible by the national endowment for the humanities.
Rediker approaches this book in a four prong approach. In the slave ship, awardwinning historian marcus rediker draws on thirty years of research in maritime archives to create an unprecedented history of these vessels and the human drama acted out on their rolling decks. Along with peter linebaugh, he coauthored one of the best accounts of emergent capitalism in the countries that surrounded that ocean. The slave ship book cover for more than three centuries slave ships carried millions of people from the coasts of africa across the atlantic to the.
University of maryland college park, department of anthropology. In this eloquent and deeply provocative new book, marcus rediker synthesizes a vast body of recent scholarship as well as a broad range of testimonials, diaries, manifests, and other primary source material. With what comes down to a pioneering and pathbreaking work, within the slave ship. The reasons they served on slave ship voyages were many and complicated. A human history by marcus rediker find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate.
The slave ship is the best of histories, deeply researched, brilliantly formulated, and morally informed. His latest work, is a study of the slave trade, examined through the historical records and accounts of the people who built, crewed, and lived aboard the slave ships, as well as those. The slave ship by marcus rediker is a scholarly story of the middle passage. The historian samuel eliot morison described it in 1969 as the most important court case. His goal is to reconstruct the social world of the angloamerican slave ship during what he calls the long eighteenth century. He comes from a workingclass family, with roots in the mines and factories of kentucky, tennessee, and virginia. Professor of history at the university of pittsburgh, marcus rediker illustrates the horrific truths of the slave trade. But always, the slave trade, which transported more than.
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