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The Slave Ship, A Human History
by Marcus Rediker
- HISTORY
- 2008
- PAPER
- 434 PAGES
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Scholar Marcus Rediker shines a light into the dark 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 reconstructs in chilling detail the "floating dungeons" at the forefront of the birth of African American culture.
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