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Freedom Ship : The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea ARC ADVANCED
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0525558349
ISBN-13
9780525558347
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26070940161
Product Key Features
Book Title
Freedom Ship : the Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Historical Geography, Maritime History & Piracy, North America, United States / General
Publication Year
2025
Genre
History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
21 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.4 in
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LCCN
2024-035833
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"Who could be better qualified to bring us a little-known slice of history concerning slavery and the political world of the Atlantic Ocean than Marcus Rediker? As someone who has admired his previous work on both subjects, I'm not surprised that he's done it again. Freedom Ship is a fascinating, evocatively told story--and an inspiring one." --Adam Hochschild, author of American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis "Marcus Rediker has done more than any other historian to chronicle the history of what he calls 'maritime radicalism' in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In Freedom Ship he focuses our attention on how the expansion of seaborne capitalism made possible the consolidation of American slavery but also created opportunities for thousands of slaves to escape from bondage by sea. Mining sources including fugitive slave narratives, newspaper advertisements for those seeking freedom, and the records of abolitionist societies, he tells the riveting stories of men and women whose quest for freedom transforms our understanding of the Underground Railroad, as well as of those who aided them in escaping--dockworkers, sailors, sympathetic ship captains, and members of African American communities up and down the East Coast, most of them previously unknown to history." --Eric Foner, Pulitzer Prize−winning author of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, "Who could be better qualified to bring us a little-known slice of history concerning slavery and the political world of the Atlantic Ocean than Marcus Rediker? As someone who has admired his previous work on both subjects, I'm not surprised that he's done it again. Freedom Ship is a fascinating, evocatively told story--and an inspiring one." --Adam Hochschild, author of American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis, "Who could be better qualified to bring us a little-known slice of history concerning slavery and the political world of the Atlantic Ocean than Marcus Rediker? As someone who has admired his previous work on both subjects, I'm not surprised that he's done it again. Freedom Ship is a fascinating, evocatively told story--and an inspiring one." --Adam Hochschild, author of American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis "Many people familiar with the history of slavery in the United States associate the terror of the Middle Passage with tall ships traversing the high seas of the Atlantic, while they think of the Underground Railroad as the legendary land-based route that those fleeing bondage traveled to freedom. In this important new work, Freedom Ship , distinguished maritime historian Marcus Rediker turns this binary on its head by showing in dramatic human terms how escape by sea was a primary method used by enslaved Black Americans in the decades leading up to the Civil War. It's a fascinating work, anchored in a commitment to history from below, that will undoubtedly expand the map of our understanding of how--and by whom--the abolitionist movement gained momentum in the crucial years that redefined our nation." --Henry Louis Gates, Jr., New York Times bestselling author of Stony the Road "Marcus Rediker has done more than any other historian to chronicle the history of what he calls 'maritime radicalism' in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In Freedom Ship he focuses our attention on how the expansion of seaborne capitalism made possible the consolidation of American slavery but also created opportunities for thousands of slaves to escape from bondage by sea. Mining sources including fugitive slave narratives, newspaper advertisements for those seeking freedom, and the records of abolitionist societies, he tells the riveting stories of men and women whose quest for freedom transforms our understanding of the Underground Railroad, as well as of those who aided them in escaping--dockworkers, sailors, sympathetic ship captains, and members of African American communities up and down the East Coast, most of them previously unknown to history." --Eric Foner, Pulitzer Prize−winning author of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery "The ocean carried Africans into slavery, but, as Marcus Rediker chronicles so vividly in his new book, it also often transported them to freedom. A distinguished maritime historian, Rediker shows us the world that sheltered and enabled enslaved workers determined to sail north from bondage. Freedom Ship tells a fascinating and inspiring story of inventiveness, courage, struggle, and solidarity. In redirecting our attention from land to sea, and in portraying the communities of sailors, dockworkers, and port city residents both Black and white who assisted the fugitives, Rediker changes our understanding of the nature and meaning of resistance to slavery in the nineteenth century United States." --Drew Gilpin Faust, author of National Book Award finalist This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Synopsis
A definitive, sweeping account of the Underground Railroad's long-overlooked maritime origins, from a pre-eminent scholar of Atlantic history and the award-winning author of The Slave Ship As many as 100,000 enslaved people fled successfully from the horrors of bondage in the antebellum South, finding safe harbor along a network of passageways across North America now known as the Underground Railroad. Yet imagery of fugitives ushered clandestinely from safe house to safe house fails to capture the full breadth of these harrowing journeys: many escapes took place not by land but by sea. Deeply researched and grippingly told, Freedom Ship offers a groundbreaking new look into the secret world of stowaways and the vessels that carried them to freedom across the North and into Canada. Sprawling through the intricate riverways of the Carolinas to the banks of the Chesapeake Bay to Boston's harbors, these tales illuminate the little-known stories of freedom seekers who turned their sights to the sea--among them the legendary abolitionist Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, one of the Underground Railroad ' s most famous architects. Marcus Rediker, one of the leading scholars of maritime history, puts his command of archival research on full display in this luminous portrait of the Atlantic waterfront as a place of conspiracy, mutiny, and liberation. Freedom Ship is essential reading for anyone looking to understand the complete story of one of North America's most significant historical moments.
LC Classification Number
E450.R29 2025
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