Marcus Rediker is Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh. His โhistories from below,โ including The Slave Ship: A Human History, have won numerous awards, including the George Washington Book Prize, and have been translated into seventeen languages worldwide. He has produced a film, Ghosts of Amistad, with director Tony Buba, and written a play, โThe Return of Benjamin Lay,โ with playwright Naomi Wallace. He is currently writing a book about escaping slavery by sea in antebellum America.
Books and Other Writings
Under the Banner of King Death
Pirates of the Atlantic, A Graphic Novel
Prophet Against Slavery
Benjamin Lay, A Graphic Novel
A Global History of Runaways
Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism, 1600โ1850
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OK, friends, it's been a blast. This is my last post. See you where the skies are blue.
Happy to say that our book, *Prophet against Slavery: Benjamin Lay, A Graphic Novel*, translated and published by @daziwonM in Seoul, South Korea, has been named one of the best graphic novels in Korea for the year 2024. @lestermecca @gpatnaik1 @NetiwitC
Black, Brown and Green Voices returns 11/19! Ft. Marcus Redikerย and David Lesterย on their graphic novel, "Revolution by Fire: New York's Afro-Irish Uprising of 1741."
Presented by @aaidnetwork @SchomburgCenter @BrademasCenter @NYUGallatin @NYUOGI
https://bit.ly/4hMp3mk
Just made my first post where skies are blue. Come on over!
Publication day! Our book *Revolution by Fire: New York's Afro-Irish Uprising of 1741* (@BeaconPressBks) is available! By @lestermecca, Paul Buhle, and me -- our third graphic novel.
https://www.beacon.org/Revolution-by-Fire-P2111.aspx
I gave a talk last week about David Graeber's essay, "There Never Was a West," through the David Graeber Institute (@Graeber_social). Here is the video.
@davidgraeber @nikadubrovsky
Calling all teachers! If you are teaching a unit on the slave trade or slavery this spring, please consider my freely available 56-minute documentary, *Ghosts of Amistad* about the slave ship revolt of 1839 and its memory in contemporary Sierra Leone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUCPo0DSstY
This Thursday we host a Zoom talk to discuss David Graeber's work. The author @MarcusRediker will join us.
If you'd like to join yourself, you can register here:
On Thursday we host a zoom talk to debate and discuss David Graeber's work - with a focus on his idea of "There Never Was A West."
The author, @MarcusRediker will join us. If you'd yourself like to join, you can register at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqdO2spzsuGNTYltSL58dtIQF0RPqfLIOH#/registration
What are you reading this weekend? We at @democracyatwrk are reading The Many-Headed Hydra by Peter Linebaugh and @MarcusRediker! Support @versobooks at this time! #solidarity #history #anticapitalism #historyfrombelow #democracyatwork #educate #agitate #organize โ๐ผโ๐ฝโ๐พโ๐ฟ๐ฉ
New Play, โThe Return of Benjamin Layโ
Written by Marcus Rediker and Naomi Wallace, world premiere at the Finborough Theatre, London, June 13โJuly 8, 2023
Featuring acclaimed American actor Mark Povinelli and directed by RSC Honorary Associate Director Ron Daniels, โThe Return of Benjamin Layโ sweeps across the centuries in a bold exploration of an utterly impossible man.
InfoGhosts of Amistad Film Website
Ghosts of Amistad Film now FREE
Full-length film online in English with subtitled versions in French, Italian and Spanish
Ghosts of Amistad chronicles a trip to Sierra Leone to visit the home villages of the people who seized the slave schooner Amistad in 1839, to interview elders about local memory of the case, and to search for the long-lost ruins of Lomboko, the slave trading factory where their cruel transatlantic voyage began. The documentary filmโs new website includes numerous resources, including study guides, to support educators around this topic.
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