“The Slave Ship: A Human History” Written By Marcus Rediker

The Book The Slave Ship, A Human History who was written by the professor Marcus Rediker, from the University of Pittsburgh who teaches History, happens to rewrite the Slave trafficking of the “Wooden world” inhabited by the kidnapping of Africans, sea captains, and their roughhewn crews. Rediker’s study was based on his original documents, performed substantial research, and obscure books on the detailing with the slave ships. In “The Slave Ship: A Human History,” he does an excellent job in detailing

The Slave Ship was written by Marcus Rediker and it tells several accounts of the African slave trade as well as the world of the middle passage. The author discusses the nature of the slave ship and the African paths to the middle passage. Rediker also mentions the lives of historical figures (Olaudah Equiano, James Field Stanfield, and John Newton) and the roles that they had during the Atlantic slave trade. For the African captives, the sailors, and captains, the slave ship was seen as a wooden

The Slave Ship was written by Marcus Rediker and it expresses several accounts of the Atlantic slave trade in addition to the world of the middle passage. The author discusses the nature of the slave ship and the African paths to the middle passage. Rediker also mentions the lives of historical figures (Olaudah Equiano, James Field Stanfield, and John Newton) and the roles that they had during the Atlantic slave trade. For the African captives, the sailors, and captains, the slave ship was seen as

based on white sources as none where written by the slaves themselves. However, Smallwood is able to get over this hurdle by comparing her archival findings with the cultural, social, and political features of the societies of the Gold Coast. Interestingly, Smallwood relates the experience of the Middle Passage with African cultural notions of cosmology and funeral rights and rituals. Her approach is refreshing as she is not simply interested in the quantity of slaves brought to market through the middle

fugitive slave act, middle passage, emancipation proclamation, and we’ve all seen the famous propaganda image of the Slave Ship Brooks, an image that depicts a “slaver” (slave ship) filled to the brim with 454 slaves packed into its small hull. But have you ever heard the stories from slaves themselves? Have you ever had someone make those numbers, nine million here, six thousand there, and so on and so forth, come to life? That is what Marcus Rediker did in his award-winning book, The Slave Ship: A Human

Villains of All Nations, by Marcus Rediker, is a collection of ideas and information about pirates in the Golden Age of Atlantic piracy, between the years 1650 and 1730. This book is a collection of the unprecedented social and cultural history of pirates, mainly at sea, but also before they became pirates, and how piracy affected maritime culture. It delves into the ideas and realities of pirate life and helps further an understanding of piracy during this time. Rediker claims, “The pirates of the

Atlantic Slave trade and with the despicable acts against humanity going on today I have found a series of sources to help further my claim. According to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Database, there were more than 12 million Africans that were forcibly transported between the sixteenth and nineteenth century. Although this number looks astonishingly high, it is only around a third of the people being smuggled and trafficked today according to Max Fisher of the Washington Post. In an article written by Fisher

civilizations, slave labor built nations and empires in Europe, Egypt, Greece, Asia and Africa. Thousands of years later, the Portuguese, Dutch and English realized the profit value that a market in human capital would provide. Africans were exported from their homeland to the New World under the most miserable conditions imaginable. Prof. Marcus Rediker, author of The Slave Ship, A Human History says, “We’re fascinated by all the tall ships except the most important one, and that’s the slave ship. And

Philip Curtin described the historiography of the Atlantic slave trade as a “Numbers Game.” Curtin found that historians conceptualized the commodification of human beings through quantification. A year earlier in 1968, Frederick George Kay claimed in The Shameful Trade that fifty million Africans were exported into slavery in foreign lands. Twenty years later, Paul Lovejoy offered a summary of the field. He argued “that known scale of the slave trade was on the order of 11,863,000” Africans were exported

Africans revolted on the ship that was taking them to South America to become slaves. The slaves revolted and killed many sailors and were trying to guide the ship back to their home country, but how often did that happen in real life? Herman Melville must have gotten his inspiration from somewhere. Around the time that Benito Cereno was written, the slave trade ship La Amistad was sailing around. Throughout history, slave revolts were very common on ships. Slave ships during the 15th century