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Marcus Rediker is Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh and Senior Research Fellow at the Collge d'tudes mondiales in Paris. His books include The Many-Headed Hydra, Villains of All Nations, The Slave Ship, The Amistad Rebellion, and Outlaws of the Atlantic. afficher plus Rediker is also the producer of the prize-winning documentary film Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels (Tony Buba, director). He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. afficher moins
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Un libro da leggere da chi, per qual si voglia motivo, voglia comprendere come è nato il mondo moderno. Spesso la fiumana del progresso ha travolto affascinanti culture libertarie e solidali.
 
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martinoalbonetti | 5 autres critiques | Dec 8, 2023 |
Rediker employed numerous resources to write this work that helps the reader understand the slave trade from start to end. Who contracted to build and ready a ship to be a floating prison. How found and who were the people who crewed these death ships? Who captained them? How were they paid? Where and how did they get the slaves? How was this human cargo maintained on the"middle passage"? How many made it to land, slaves and sailors, and in what condition? What happened to those who made land? Who fought to keep the slave ships, and who fought to outlaw them? This author answers all these questions with an objectively drawn account.… (plus d'informations)
 
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burritapal | 6 autres critiques | Oct 23, 2022 |
Lay was born in 1682 in Essex, England. His philosophies, employments, and places of residence—spanning England, Barbados, Philadelphia, and the open seas—were markedly diverse over the course of his life. He worked as a shepherd, glove maker, sailor, and bookseller. His worldview was an astonishing combination of Quakerism, vegetarianism, animal rights, opposition to the death penalty, and abolitionism. (Amazon.com)
 
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BirmFrdsMtg | 22 autres critiques | Mar 30, 2022 |
Not a cohesive continuous story, but hundreds of unrelated short descriptions of the lives of sailors, slaves, merchants, captains, and the ships involved in the slave trade. Well researched, but one quickly gets the idea from the multiple examples that this was a shameful era. While clearly there was a common theme throughout the book, not having a common character or continuous story line failed to hold my interest.
 
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rsutto22 | 6 autres critiques | Jul 15, 2021 |

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