Description: Much is known of the American slave trade, but little of the ships that had made it all possible. Award-winning historian Rediker draws on 30 years of research in maritime archives to create an unprecedented history of these vessels and the human drama acted out on their rolling decks.
Review Quotes: "Masterly."--Adam Hochschild, The New York Times Book Review
"Searingly brilliant."--Los Angeles Times Book Review " I was hardly prepared for the profound emotional impact of The Slave Ship: A Human History. Reading it established a transformative and never to be severed bond with my African ancestors who were cargo in slave ships over a period of four centuries."--Alice Walker " The Slave Ship is the best of histories, deeply researched, brilliantly formulated, and morally informed."--Ira Berlin, author of Many Thousands Gone