The Slave Ship: A Human History
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (549 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0143114255 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Starbright said Academically stunning in depth study of slavery and shipping. Academically stunning, and finally an in depth study of the entire merchant system and the ships that made it possible. Multiple viewpoints of the same events, such as the collection of Africans from the coasts of Africa, yields a layered view of how those events unfolded for the different participants. Occasionally repetitive, since quoting the same testimony for different points of view. Since this book is prima. A History EVERYONE in America Should Know Thanks If this history were taught in schools and know by blacks and whites alike, it serve well to anger us into unity against the black and white perpetrators that brought the scourge of slavery and racism to the Americas. Instead, our collective ignorance of this history still divides us with hate and vengeance. There is no justification or excuse for the Atlantic Slave Trade, neither is there justification or excuse . This is a fantastic work by Marcus Rediker Sean Breen This is a fantastic work by Marcus Rediker. It presents for the reader the horrible reality of the wooden prisons that brought millions of Africans across the Atlantic. For anyone who wishes to learn the realities of transatlantic slavery, this book is a mist read.
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.
Painful as this powerful book often is, Rediker does not lose sight of the humanity of even the most egregious participants, from African traders to English merchants. Regarding these vessels as a strange and potent combination of war machine, mobile prison, and factory, Rediker expands the scholarship on how the ships not only delivered millions of people to slavery, but prepared them for it. All rights reserved. . (Oct. He engages readers in maritime detail (how ships were made, how crews were fed) and renders the archival (letters, logs and legal hearings) accessible. While he makes fresh use of those who left their mark in written records (Olaudah Equiano, James Field Stanfield, John Newton), Rediker is remarkably attentive to the experiences of the enslaved women, from whom we have no written accounts, and of the common seaman, who he says was a victim of the slave trade and a victimizer. 8)