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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Marcus Rediker |
| ISBN: | 9780670018239 0670018236 |
| OCLC Number: | 124074808 |
| Description: | 434 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Responsibility: | Marcus Rediker. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
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.
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- Slave trade -- Africa -- History.
- Slaves.
- Merchant mariners.
- Race relations.
- Slave ships -- History.
- Slavenhandel.
- Schepen.
- Zeevervoer.
- Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
- Verenigde Staten.
- Afrika.
- Esclaves -- Commerce -- Afrique -- Histoire.
- Esclaves.
- Marins (Marine marchande)
- Relations raciales.
