The Slave Ship

Download or read book The Slave Ship written by Marcus Rediker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-10-04 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.