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Marcus Rediker

Born

in Owensboro, Kentucky, The United States

October 14, 1951

Website

http://www.marcusrediker.com/

Genre

History, Social Sciences, Nonfiction

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Marcus Rediker is Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh and Senior Research Fellow at the Collège d’études mondiales in Paris. He is the author of numerous prize-winning books, including The Many-Headed Hydra (with Peter Linebaugh), The Slave Ship, and The Amistad Rebellion. He produced the award-winning documentary film Ghosts of Amistad (Tony Buba, director), about how the Amistad Mutiny of 1839 lives on today in popular memory among the people of Sierra Leone.

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	The Slave Ship: A Human History 4.12 avg rating — 2,187 ratings — published 2007 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age 3.98 avg rating — 1,167 ratings — published 2004 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist 4.13 avg rating — 511 ratings — published 2017 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom 3.95 avg rating — 390 ratings — published 2012 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750 4.07 avg rating — 346 ratings — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail 3.85 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 2013 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea 4.14 avg rating — 83 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fearless Benjamin: The Quaker Dwarf Who Fought Slavery 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Return of Benjamin Lay by Marcus Rediker, Marcus Rediker 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Global History of Runaways: Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism, 1600–1850 (California World History Library) (Volume 28) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“John Atkins, the naval surgeon, spoke of the transition from privateer to pirate as going from “plundering for others, to do it for themselves.”
― Marcus Rediker, Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age

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“Seamen could expect little relief from the law, whose purpose in the eighteenth-century Atlantic was, according to Jesse Lemisch, “to assure a ready supply of cheap, docile labor.”
― Marcus Rediker, Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age

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“It was on old joke among underfed, angry sailors that should mutiny fail, the weight of their bodies would not be enough to hang them.”
― Marcus Rediker, Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age

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