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The Slave Ship Interviews

  • “All Monarchies were Profoundly Involved in the Slave Trade and Benefitted Enormously from It,” Debats pel Demà, October 10, 2023. Interview in Spanish or Catalan.
  • La violencia de la esclavitud fue fundamental en el ascenso del capitalism,” El Salto Madrid interview in Spanish, September 14, 2023. Interview in Portuguese, Opera Mundi, Saõ Paulo, October 5, 2023.
  • “El concepto de raza se creó en el barco esclavista,” Mundo Negro interview, Madrid, September 13, 2023.
  • “Todos los Estados colonizadores, como lo fue España, crean falsos relatos sobre su passado,” Contexto interview, September 13, 2023.
  • “Todos vivimos con los fantasmas de la esclavitud,” El País interview, September 12, 2023.
  • “El barco de esclavos es un símbolo de los orígenes violentos del capitalism,” El Diario interview, Madrid, September 11, 2023.
  • New Books Network podcast, interview by Morteza Hajizadeh, March 3, 2023.
  • “Slave Ship Revolts,” interview by Nora Barrows-Friedman and Pierre Loiselle for “The Brief: Tracking the Empire,” Sept. 6, 2022.
  • “The Transatlantic Slave Trade Ships: Trajectories of Death and Violence across the Ocean,” interview by Léopold Lambert for The Funambulist (Paris), July 23, 2022.
  • “De waarheid over de gruwelen van het slavenschip” (“The Truth about the Horrors of the Slave Ship”), interview by Pepijn Brandon for Gessheidenis Magazine (Amsterdam), June 22, 2022.
  • “The Slave Ship Embodies the Whole Story of Slavery,” Interview by Nirit Ben-Ari, originally published in Ha-aretz, April 21, 2014, republished in Critical Legal Thinking, May 22, 2014 (print)
  • “Ghosts on the Waterfront: An Interview with Marcus Rediker,” Interview by Simon Garnett, Eurozine, July 27, 2012 (print)
  • Société des études Robespierristes, Interview by Marc Belissa, December 2011 (print, in French)
  • Socialist ReviewInterview by Hassan Mahamdallie, December 2007 (print)
  • National Public Radio, The Leonard Lopate Show,  WNYC, October 2007 (audio)
  • National Public Radio, Talk of the Nation, October 2007 (audio)
  • National Public Radio,  News and Notes, March 2007 (audio)