Rediker, a bestselling nonfiction author and documentary film writer, is the Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh and Senior Research Fellow at the Collège d’études mondiales in Paris. Critics praise it for shedding light on a little-explored facet of North American history. The book won numerous awards, including the 2008 George Washington Book Prize and the 2008 Merle Curti Award. Marcus Rediker’s historical The Slave Ship: A Human History (2007) describes what happened aboard the ships carrying slaves from Africa to the Americas across the Atlantic Ocean.
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