Marcus Rediker

is Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh. The Slave Ship: A Human History (Viking-Penguin, 2007) won the George Washington Book Prize and will appear in eight languages. His new book, The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom, will be published by Viking-Penguin in November 2012. For more information, visit www.MarcusRediker.com.

Articles

Slave trade

Ghosts on the waterfront

An interview with Marcus Rediker

In an excerpt from his acclaimed book The Slave Ship: A Human History, historian Marcus Rediker describes the deep-sea sailing ship as linchpin of the emergent transatlantic economic order and instrument of terror for slaves brought from Africa to the Americas. In a subsequent interview, he discusses the role played by European harbour cities in the slave trade and their responsibilities in reckoning with its moral legacy.