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The extraordinary story of one of the first British men to oppose slavery

Mehr als drei Jahrhunderte lang brachten Sklavenschiffe 14 Millionen Menschen von den Küsten Afrikas über den Atlantik in die Neue Welt. Etwa fünf Millionen sind in Afrika, auf den Schiffen und im ersten Jahr der Sklavenarbeit gestorben. »Das Sklavenschiff« ist eine Geschichte der Tragödie und des Schreckens, aber auch ein Epos der Widerstandsfähigkeit. Der Autor hat mit ihm ein Standardwerk über eines der erschütterndsten Kapitel des Kolonial...

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Featuring a cross-dressing woman, a person of color, and 'outcasts of all nations, ' an arresting graphic exploration of the resistance and unique vision of eighteenth-century piratesA tale of mutiny, bloody battle, and social revolution, Under the Banner of King Death novelizes for the first time the real pirates, an itinerant community of outsiders, behind our legends. This graphic novel breaks new ground in our understanding of piracy and p...

“Innovative in method and original in its findings, this is a well-written collection that hangs together stylistically, from start to finish.”—Rick Halpern, coauthor of Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid “This highly original collection traverses a range of contexts that will appeal to readers interested in how working people resisted and subverted the demands of labor and capital across the early-modern world.”—Clare Anderson, e...

True tales of the pirates who ruled the seas during the eighteenth century

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The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of lifeIn The Fearless Benjamin Lay, renowned historian Marcus Rediker chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular man-a Quaker dwarf who demanded the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world. Mocked and scorned by his contemporaries, Lay was unflinching in his oppositio...

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Il 28 giugno 1839, la goletta negriera spagnola La Amistad salpò dall'Avana per effettuare una delle sue solite consegne di carico umano. Una notte senza luna, dopo quattro giorni di navigazione, i prigionieri africani si sollevarono, uccisero il capitano e presero il controllo della nave. Cercarono di far vela in un porto sicuro, ma furono catturati dalla marina militare statunitense e incarcerati nel Connecticut. La loro battaglia legale per...

Using newly discovered evidence, Marcus Rediker reframes the story of the Amistad rebellion of 1839 to show how a small group of courageous men fought and won an epic battle against Spanish and American slaveholders and their governments. He reaches back to Africa to find the rebels' roots, narrates their cataclysmic transatlantic journey, and unfolds a poignant, moving and dramatic prison story.Featuring vividly drawn portraits of the African...

Award-winning historian Rediker creates an unprecedented history of slave ships and the human drama acted out on their rolling decks. Rediker restores the slave ship to its rightful place alongside the plantation as a formative institution of slavery, as a place where a profound and still haunting history of race, class, and modern capitalism was made. Unabridged. 1 MP3 CD.

This maritime history "from below" exposes the history-making power of common sailors, slaves, pirates, and other outlaws at sea in the era of the tall ship. In Outlaws of the Atlantic, award-winning historian Marcus Rediker turns maritime history upside down. He explores the dramatic world of maritime adventure, not from the perspective of admirals, merchants, and nation-states but from the viewpoint of commoners-sailors, slaves, indentured s...

Reveals the lost stories of the forgotten revolutionaries whose ideas of freedom and equality long pre-dated the American War of Independence.

Pirates have long been stock figures in popular culture, from "Treasure Island" to the more recent antics of Jack Sparrow. This rediscovers their radical democratic challenge to the established powers of the day.