![]() To write the book, Rediker spent years researching primary resources including maritime archives, court records, first-hand accounts, and diaries. Rediker confines his discussion to these busiest years to best explore the slave ships in detail. ![]() In The Slave Ship, Rediker highlights the horrific conditions endured by slaves transported from Africa to America between 17 aboard the “slave ships.” According to Rediker, slavery was especially profitable in the eighteenth century, and Great Britain and America moved millions of Africans to develop the New World. Rediker, a bestselling nonfiction author and documentary film writer, is the Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh and Senior Research Fellow at the Collège d’études mondiales in Paris. Critics praise it for shedding light on a little-explored facet of North American history. The book won numerous awards, including the 2008 George Washington Book Prize and the 2008 Merle Curti Award. Marcus Rediker’s historical The Slave Ship: A Human History (2007) describes what happened aboard the ships carrying slaves from Africa to the Americas across the Atlantic Ocean.
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