434 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Original Version
Originally published: New York : Viking, c2007.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-415) and index.
Summary
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.
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.
