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The missing link in the chain of American slavery For three centuries slave ships carted millions of people from the coasts of Africa across the Atlantic to the Americas. Much is known of the slave trade and the American plantation system, but little of the ships that made it all possible. In The Slave Ship , award-winning 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. He reconstructs in chilling detail the lives, deaths, and terrors of captains, sailors, and the enslaved aboard a floating dungeon trailed by sharks. From the young African kidnapped from his village and sold into slavery by a neighboring tribe to the would-be priest who takes a job as a sailor on a slave ship only to be horrified at the evil he sees to the captain who relishes having a hell of my own, Rediker illuminates the lives of people who were thought to have left no trace. This is a tale of tragedy and terror, but also an epic of resilience, survival, and the creation of something entirely new. Marcus Rediker restores the slave ship to its rightful place alongside the plantation as a formative institution of slavery, a place where a profound and still haunting history of race, class, and modern economy was made.

for More Than Three Centuries, Slave Ships Carried Millions Of People From The Coasts Of Africa To The New World. In The Slave Ship, Award-winning Historian Marcus Rediker Creates An Unprecedented History Of These Vessels And The Human Drama Acted Out On Their Rolling Decks. Rediker Restores The Slave Ship To Its Rightful Place Alongside The Plantation As A Formative Institution Of Slavery, As A Place Where A Profound And Still Haunting History Of Race, Class, And Modern Capitalism Was Made.

the New York Times - Adam Hochschild

…the Notorious Middle Passage Across The Atlantic, On Which More Than 12 Million Africans Were Embarked For The Americas Over More Than Three Centuries, We Know About Almost Entirely From The Perpetrators. There Are Few Accounts Of This Voyage By Slaves…but An Astonishingly Large Body Of Evidence Remains From Those Who Trafficked In Human Beings: Letters, Diaries, Memoirs, Captain's Logbooks, Shipping Company Records, Testimony Before British Parliamentary Investigations, Even Poetry And At Least One Play By Former Slave-ship Officers. 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: A Human History…rediker Has Made Magnificent Use Of Archival Data; His Probing, Compassionate Eye Turns Up Numerous Finds That Other People Who've Written On This Subject, Myself Included, Have Missed.

For More Than Three Centuries, Slave Ships Carried Millions Of People From The Coasts Of Africa To The New World. Here, The Author Creates A Detailed History Of These Vessels And The Human Drama Acted Out On Their Rolling Decks. He Restores The Slave Ship To Its Rightful Place Alongside The Plantation As A Formative Institution Of Slavery, As A Place Where A Profound And Still Haunting History Of Race, Class, And Modern Capitalism Was Made. Introduction -- Life, Death, And Terror In The Slave Trade -- The Evolution Of The Slave Ship -- African Paths To The Middle Passage -- Olaudah Equiano: Astonishment And Terror -- James Field Stanfield And The Floating Dungeon -- John Newton And The Peaceful Kingdom -- The Captain's Own Hell -- The Sailor's Vast Machine -- From Captives To Shipmates -- The Long Voyage Of The Slave Ship Brooks -- Epilogue: Endless Passage -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- Illustration Sources And Credits. Marcus Rediker. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 361-415) And Index. “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. 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. 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. For more than three centuries, slave ships carried millions of people from the coasts of Africa to the New World. Here, award-winning historian Rediker creates a detailed history of these vessels and the human drama acted out on their rolling decks. Rediker restores the slave ship to its rightful place alongside the plantation as a formative institution of slavery, as a place where a profound and still haunting history of race, class, and modern capitalism was made.--From publisher description About the Book Recounts the author's decision to change careers and attend the famed Le Cordon Bleu cooking school in Paris, an education during which she survived the program's intense teaching methods, competitive fellow students, and the dynamics of falling in love, in an account complemented by two dozen recipes. Edition Notes Originally published: New York : Viking, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-282) and index of recipes (p. [283]-285). Life, death, and terror in the slave trade The evolution of the slave ship African paths to the middle passage Olaudah Equiano: astonishment and terror James Field Stanfi Eld and the floating dungeon John Newton and the peaceful kingdom The captain's own hell The sailor's vast machine From captives to shipmates The long voyage of the slave ship brookes Epilogue: endless passage Acknowledgments Notes Index. Charts the history of slave ships, their crews, and their enslaved passengers, documenting such stories as those of a young kidnapped African whose slavery is witnessed firsthand by a horrified priest from a neighboring tribe responsible for the slave's capture.