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The cover of my edition of Marcus Rediker’s The Slave Ship features a quote from the Sunday Telegraph describing it as “A truly magnificent book.” Such is my prejudice that I imagine Telegraph readers coming to Rediker's work not to be educated about the shaping of race and class in the Western hemi Leggi tutto

Like many other overwhelming catastrophes -- the Holocaust, AIDS, the persistence of poverty -- America's history as a slave-owning nation is so hard to look at and examine deeply that we often shy away from any serious consideration of it. But this is a book that could overcome that reluctance in ma Leggi tutto

I’m developing a science fiction novel about slavery called Humanity’s Fall. The basic concept is Twelve Years a Slave meets Star Trek and follows the ordeal of one woman ripped from her brownstone in Brooklyn and thrust into the belly of a ship to be sold on the other side of the galaxy. The resear Leggi tutto

It's a little hard to love a book whose main objective is to painstakingly detail the extent of human cruelty and terror in the slave trade, especially when those details are revealingly extensive. But this is a riveting historiography. What I suspected I'd get going in was a good ethnography of the Leggi tutto

This is based upon the audio download from [ www.audible.com ] Narrated by: David Drummond Wow! What a book! Everything you wanted to know about slave ships, the business of slavery, and more. This book detailed the whole sordid story of slavery as a business machine and its mass production of human carg Leggi tutto

This was a very painful read. While we all know the slave ship/middle passage was a horror, this book really goes into excruciating detail like you couldn't possibly imagine. Something that makes it pretty readable is that the author tells stories of particular people- people who kept journals, so y Leggi tutto

Wat een waanzinnig straf boek. Rediker focust op de slavenschepen waardoor je als lezer geconfronteerd wordt met wat er op en onder het dek gebeurde. In elk hoofdstuk laat hij een ander perspectief aan bod komen, telkens vertrekkende vanuit getuigenissen: de slaafgemaakten, de kapitein, de mensenhan Leggi tutto

In my attempt to fill the many gaps of my U.S. history education, I decided to start with the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. I did read a book about the founding of Jamestown, the first settlement by Europeans in North America and have yet to read about the pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock but given t Leggi tutto

Marcus Rediker is very quick to place the blame for the international slave trade on Europeans. He discusses with brutal detail the devastation caused by the slave trade -- whether on the lives of the Africans, the captains, the sailors, merchants, the insurers. What he merely touches upon is that t Leggi tutto