Rediker, Marcus — The Slave Ship: A Human History (2007) Source Information

Rediker, Marcus — The Slave Ship: A Human History (2007) Source Information Author: Marcus Rediker Full Title: The Slave Ship: A Human History Publisher: Viking Year: 2007 Type: Secondary Source — Slave Ship, Maritime Labor, Middle Passage, and Abolition Location in Vault: research/secondary-sources/ Full Text: rediker slave ship.txt Status Text extracted: Yes — rediker slave ship.txt Review pass: Completed (2026-03-27) — middle-passage ship-history pass focused on the slave ship as prison, factory, race-making machine, and site of collective resistance Chapter notes: rediker slave ship ch notes Graph review in this pass: Created shipboard resistance, race formation, and olaudah equiano; strengthened moc society culture and moc sources Overview Rediker gives the vault a maritime history from below. The book treats the slave ship not as a neutral vehicle but as a historical actor: a floating prison, war machine, labor regime, and factory for the production of plantation workers, white sailors, and racialized categories. This makes it one of the strongest sources in the vault for understanding the ship itself as a social world rather than as a corridor between Africa and the Americas.