The slave ship : a human history / Marcus Rediker.
For more than three centuries, slave ships carried millions of people from the coasts of Africa to the New World. Here, award-winning historian Rediker creates a detailed history of these vessels and the human drama acted out on their decks.
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New York :
Viking Penguin,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Life, death, and terror in the slave trade
- The evolution of the slave ship
- African paths to the middle passage
- Olaudah Equiano : astonishment and terror
- James Field Stanfield and the floating dungeon
- John Newton and the peaceful kingdom
- The captain's own hell
- The sailor's vast machine
- From captives to shipmates
- The long voyage of the slave ship Brooks
- Epilogue: endless passage.