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