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Podcast: New Books in African American Studies
Episode: Marcus Rediker, "The Slave Ship: A Human History" (Penguin, 2008)
Description: 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: A Human History (Penguin, 2008) 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.Marcus Rediker is Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh. His “histories...