![]() ![]() He reconstructs in chilling detail the lives, deaths, and terrors of captains, sailors, and the enslaved aboard a “floating dungeon” trailed by sharks. 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. Much is known of the slave trade and the American plantation complex, but little of the ships that made it all possible. For more than three centuries slave ships carried millions of people from the coasts of Africa across the Atlantic to the New World. ![]()
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