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Marcus Rediker’s historical The Slave Ship: A Human History (2007) describes what happened aboard the ships carrying slaves from Africa to the Americas across the Atlantic Ocean. The book won numerous awards, including the 2008 George Washington Book Prize and the 2008 Merle Curti Award.
Written by Hellen Boss. Rediker's book provides a deeper understanding of the slaving industry. He paints the Atlantic as an exceptionally violent place. The slavery violence affected the lives of the slaves, those of the crews of the slavery vessels, and everyone involved.
Marcus 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.
Rediker illuminates that the Western hemisphere depended greatly on the slave trade in acquiring its vast wealth and political power. The book illustrates inexcusable violence and horror on ships during slavery that were central to the cultivation of modern capitalism.
6 mar 2020 · 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.
In the book, Rediker focuses on the extent global capitalism was facilitated by the inhumane institution of slavery in the eighteenth century. He aims to reveal the true villains of the transatlantic trade as the slave trade captains, merchants, and industrialists.
14 paź 2022 · 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.
