The Slave Ship
A Human History

The cover of my edition of Marcus Rediker’s The Slave Ship features a quote from the Sunday Telegraph describing it as “A truly magnificent book.” Such is my prejudice that I imagine Telegraph readers coming to Rediker's work not to be educated about the shaping of race and class in the Western hemi......more

Like many other overwhelming catastrophes -- the Holocaust, AIDS, the persistence of poverty -- America's history as a slave-owning nation is so hard to look at and examine deeply that we often shy away from any serious consideration of it. But this is a book that could overcome that reluctance in ma......more

I’m developing a science fiction novel about slavery called Humanity’s Fall. The basic concept is Twelve Years a Slave meets Star Trek and follows the ordeal of one woman ripped from her brownstone in Brooklyn and thrust into the belly of a ship to be sold on the other side of the galaxy. The resear......more

It's a little hard to love a book whose main objective is to painstakingly detail the extent of human cruelty and terror in the slave trade, especially when those details are revealingly extensive. But this is a riveting historiography. What I suspected I'd get going in was a good ethnography of the......more

This is based upon the audio download from [www.audible.com] Narrated by: David Drummond Wow! What a book! Everything you wanted to know about slave ships, the business of slavery, and more. This book detailed the whole sordid story of slavery as a business machine and its mass production of human carg......more