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The slave ship : a human history / Marcus Rediker.

By: Rediker, Marcus Buford.
Contributor(s): local.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Viking, c2007Description: 434 p., [16] p. of ill. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780670018239; 0670018236.Subject(s): Follett Library Resources | sears -- Slave trade -- Africa | History | Slaves | Merchant mariners | Race relations. -- Slave trade -- Africa | sears | sears | sears | sears | searsDDC classification: 306.3/62/096
Contents:
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 Stanfi Eld 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 brookes -- Epilogue: endless passage -- Acknowledgments -
Summary: Presents a comprehensive history of the African slave trade and of the suffering and tragedy of millions of Africans who were kidnapped and brought aboard slave ships to be sold in the Americas.
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Presents a comprehensive history of the African slave trade and of the suffering and tragedy of millions of Africans who were kidnapped and brought aboard slave ships to be sold in the Americas.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-415) and index.

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 Stanfi Eld 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 brookes -- Epilogue: endless passage -- Acknowledgments -

- Notes -- Index. Adult

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