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Author Rediker, Marcus.

Title The slave ship : a human history / Marcus Rediker.

Publication Info. New York : Viking, [2007]
©2007

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  306.362 REDIKER    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  306.362 REDIKER    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  306.362 RED    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  306.362 R248    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  306.362 RED    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  306.362 RED    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  306.362 RED    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  306.362 REDIKER    Check Shelf
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Adult Department  326 REDIKER    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  306.362 RED    Check Shelf

Description 434 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-415) and index.
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 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.
Subject Race relations.
Enslaved persons.
Merchant mariners.
Slave trade -- Africa -- History.
Local Subject Trafficking in enslaved persons -- Africa -- History.
ISBN 9780670018239
0670018236
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