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The Slave Ship
The Slave Ship: A Human History | Marcus Rediker
2 posts | 1 read | 1 reading | 5 to read
“Masterly.”—Adam Hochschild, The New York Times Book Review 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.
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We talk about the wickedness of slavery but we far often talk less about a more sinister practice prior to that; the slave trade itself. In this book, Rediker delves into the practice, examining how the operation unfolded from the capture of Africans on the coast to mainly focusing on the hardships the captured Africans and sailors endured during the middle passage.

The only problem I had with this book is how the information is organized.

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