The Slave Ship: A Human History by Marcus Rediker

The Slave Ship: A Human History
Marcus Rediker
Page: 448
Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
ISBN: 9780143114253
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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For more than three centuries, slave ships carried millions of people from the coasts of Africa across the Atlantic to the New World. Much is known of the slave trade and the American plantation complex, 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 ...

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