The Slave Ship

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The Slave Ship is written by Marcus Rediker and published by Penguin. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1440620849 (ISBN 10) and 9781440620843 (ISBN 13).

“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.