This is quite an interesting and informative book about a horrible mass murder aboard a slave ship in 1781. This diagram of the brookes slave ship is probably the most widely copied and powerful image used by the abolitionist campaigners. Rediker also chosen to examine participation in the slave trade by france, the netherlands, portugal, and spain, this book would have been three or four. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the slave ship. West africa, where 148 african people were enslaved and brought aboard. The human cargo was then transported back to africa. The arrival of 20 and odd enslaved africans in 1619 has been called the beginning of u. The book recounts the history of the modern slave ship, from the. The slave ship is the fourth book written by marcus rediker, a prizewinning american historian of the earlymodern era and the atlantic world and a distinguished professor of history at the university of pittsburgh.
African blockade,from april to october 1848 london. I was hoping for a book that would really capture the essence and emotion of life aboard a slave ship. The height between the decks where the slaves were stowed was about 5 feet, 8 inches. Such is my prejudice that i imagine telegraph readers coming to redikers work not to be educated about the shaping of race and class in the western hemisphere by the atlantic slave trade but to bask in reminiscences about the source of their wealth or. What most differentiated those carried aboard the emilia from other af. A mural of the clotilda adorns a concrete embankment in africatown, a community near mobile founded by africans illegally transported to alabama aboard the slave ship. Through evocative language, fluid narration, poignant. Leaving from its home port in europe, a typical ship made its first passage to the west coast of africa, trading goods for a full cargo of slavespeople who had. A tale of revolt aboard a slave ship george hendrick, author, willene hendrick, joint author. But it goes beyond the tragic event itself to discuss.
Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Review of the slave ship by marcus rediker the lakefront. Wage book for the slave trading ship fox captained by robert mitchell. It depicts the ship loaded to its full capacity 454 people crammed into the hold. This is more of a detached intellectual discussion to me. Smithsonian to receive artifacts from sunken 18thcentury slave. Drawing on thirty years of research in maritime archives, court records, diaries, and firsthand accounts, the slave ship is. The last slave ship survivor and her descendants identified.
To enforce these laws, britain and the united states jointly patrolled the seas off the coast of africa, stopping suspected slave traders and confiscating the ship when slaves were found. The brookes was a large ship, measuring 100 feet in length and 27 feet in width. Captive africans are taken by boat to the slave ship clotilda in 1860. Slave ship sailors and their captive cargoes, 17301807 despite the vast literature on the transatlantic slave trade, the role of sailors aboard slave ships has remained unexplored. Clotilda, americas last slave ship, stole them from home. The epitome of british naval power and the creation. The brookes sailed the passage from liverpool via the gold coast in africa to jamaica in the west indies. Book will recount the bitter human drama aboard slave ships. You forget that this workforce, devoid of any working class consciousness, shall only serve to launch the latest edition of slave trade.
A tale of revolt aboard a slave ship hendrick, george, hendrick, willene on. Wage book for the slave trading ship fox captained by robert. The last slave ship survivor and her descendants identified at age two, she was among the youngest captives on the clotilda. Clotilda, last american slave ship, discovered in alabama. A descendant of the last survivor of the final slave ship to take captives from africa to america has spoken of his pride at seeing his greatgreatgrandfathers story finally being published.
Slave ship sailors and their captive cargoes, 17301807. Descendant of last survivor of final slave ship to travel. Now her living grandchildren are learning of her life and legacy. But the book keeps a sharp focus on the microcosm of the vast machine. Slave ships and the middle passage encyclopedia virginia. Nmaahc 1400 constitution ave nw, national mall location, concourse 3, c3 053. An interview with marcus rediker an interview with marcus rediker the slave ship was a central institution of slave trade and slavery. In 1794, the portuguese slave ship sao jose wrecked with 400 slaves aboard. A human history, a meticulously researched work, marcus rediker, a maritime historian at the university of pittsburgh, has drawn the slave ship out of. In 1860, an illegal bet brought the last known captive africans to u. The cover of my edition of marcus redikers the slave ship features a quote from the sunday telegraph describing it as a truly magnificent book.
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