Prizes for The Slave Ship:
- The 2008 James A. Rawley Prize, given by the American Historical
Association
- The 2008
George
Washington Book Prize, given by the Gilder Lehrman Institute,
the Mount Vernon Ladies Association, and Washington College.
- Read
Marcus's prize acceptance speech
here.
- The
2008 OAH Merle Curti Award, given by the Organization of American
Historians
Selected Reviews of The Slave Ship:
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The Nation, January 17, 2008,
Little
Ships of Horror, by Christopher Leslie Brown
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Los Angeles Times, January 2, 2008, "'Slave
Ship' Navigates a Savage Sea," by Tim Rutten
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Boston Globe, November 4, 2007,
Souls on Ice, by James Smethurst
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The New York Sun, October 24, 2007,
Life in the
Hold, by Melissa Harris-Lacewell
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New York Times Sunday Book Review, October 21, 2007,
Voyage of the Damned, by Adam Hochschild
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Wall Street Journal, October 11, 2007,
The Price of Human Cargo, by Fergus Bordewich
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Christian Science Monitor, October 9, 2007,
The Horrors of
"The Slave Ship," by Colin Woodard
Feature articles:
- Die Zeit, October 9, 2008,
The Righteous
Fire (The Righteous Fire, in german)
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 8, 2008,
Novelist, Pitt Professor Form Unusual Bond, by Bob Hoover
- Associated Press,
Book explores history of slave ships, human cargo and crew, by Dan
Nephin
- Associated Press,
Libro indaga en la historia de los barcos de esclavos, by Dan Nephin
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Interactive slide show with audio, by Dan Nephin
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, October 4,
2007,
Pitt professor writes of horror on the high seas, by Richard Byrne
Reilly
- Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Monday,
October 1, 2007,
The
Thinkers: Pitt prof's new book an entree to recesses of slave trade,
by Mark Roth
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Monday,
October 1, 2007,
Slave
ships were death ships for crew and captives, by Mark Roth
Interviews:
Opinion pieces by Marcus Rediker:
- Counterpunch,
Notes on a Visit to the Favelas of Medellín, Colombia, September 13,
2008
- Los Angeles Times,
Atonement for Slave Trade, January 21, 2008
- Boston Globe, September 27, 2007,
Slavery: A Shark's perspective: A strange text sheds new light on the true roots of abolition
- Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Sunday Forum, Sunday,
April 29, 2007,
No more
slaves: Abolishing slavery, then or now, requires broad social movements; it cannot be left to the grace of a few great men
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