Marcus Rediker is the author of, among other books, Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea. The radical life and work of the historian. May 13, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Peter ...

In this groundbreaking work, historian and scholar Rediker considers the relationships between the slave ship captain and his crew, between the sailors and the slaves, and among the captives ...

The Return of Benjamin Lay has its origins in protest. We were scheduled to give a plenary lecture at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin on the theme, "What Comes after Nations?". We decided to ...

Fearless Benjamin is a new children’s book by Michelle Markel and Marcus Rediker, illustrated by Sarah Bachman. 32 pages, 10 x 8” hardcover. $18.95. For readers aged 4-8 and up. Pre-order from PM ...

Harold Meyerson explains Democrats’ preparations for Trump’s threats to voting, and Marcus Rediker talks about Black America in the 1850s. Jon Wiener Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation.

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Pirates are some of the most immediately recognizable figures in popular culture –- and some of the most inaccurately represented. Historian Marcus Rediker argues that the actual pirates who lived ...

Abraham Lincoln famously remarked, “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master.” In the many years since, something of the Emancipator’s moral point has been lost, along with the memory of ...

Marcus Rediker was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, in 1951, to Buford and Faye Rediker, the first of their two sons. He comes from a working class family, with roots in the mines and factories of ...

Life, death, and terror in the slave trade -- The evolution of the slave ship -- African paths to the Middle Passage -- Olaudah Equiano : astonishment and terror ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Marcus Rediker is a Distinguished Professor for the History Department in the University of Pittsburgh with three videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a ...

This time Eric welcomes historian and author Marcus Rediker to CounterPunch Radio to discuss how the study of history can impact our politics today. Marcus explains what he means by studying “history ...