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“The slave ship is an open metaphoric wound lying at the heart of attempts to
understand the middle passage. Marcus Rediker’s
remarkable new book combines a uniquely profound understanding of the maritime
industries in the eighteenth century with an
imaginative humanism. No other book has displayed such combined practicality
and compassion regarding the actual workings of “the abominable
traffick.” Rediker’s
work is important not only because of what it uncovers, but because it suggests
ways of overcoming the disastrous legacy of the slave trade. The Slave Ship
struck me with the force of prophecy, it is a superbly realized work that will
actually change the living memory of slavery, and only Marcus Rediker could have
written it.”
—Marcus Wood, author of Blind Memory: Visual Representations of Slavery in
England and America, 1780-1865.
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