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“The slave ship was a machine that manufactured modernity. As it moved across
the Atlantic, the world changed. It joined Europe, Africa, and the Americas,
creating enormous wealth and untold misery, and its hellish voyages continue to
cast a shadow over our lives. Marcus Rediker, a preeminent historian the
maritime Atlantic, unravels its history with unmatched knowledge of the material
changes and moral ruptures it created. The Slave
Ship is the best of histories, deeply researched, brilliantly formulated,
and morally informed.”
—Ira Berlin, author of the Bancroft-Prize-winning Many Thousands Gone: The
First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America.
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