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    Freedom Ship

    Marcus Rediker

    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

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    Villains of All Nations

    Marcus Rediker

    A must-have hardcover edition of the watershed book on 18th-century pirates and the amazingly democratic and egalitarian communities they created

    Part of the Beacon Classics series

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    Revolution by Fire: A Graphic Novel

    David Lester, Marcus Rediker

    Based on the little known real life "Slave Insurrection" of 1741, this book imagines outlaw fugitive John Gwin and an eclectic crew of renegades as they attempt to disrupt and…

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    Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail

    Marcus Rediker

    Gripping maritime history from below with pirates and escaped slaves.

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    The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist

    Marcus Rediker

    The extraordinary story of one of the first British men to oppose slavery

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    The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom

    Marcus Rediker

    A brilliant reanalysis of a the slave mutiny that changed the world and became a crucial moment in the abolition of slavery, by the world’s foremost expert on Atlantic history.

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    Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age

    Marcus Rediker

    Pirates have long been stock figures in popular culture, from Treasure Island to the more recent antics of Jack Sparrow. Villains of all Nations rediscovers their radical democratic challenge to…

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    The Slave Ship

    Marcus Rediker

    The human drama of the slave trade told from a new perspective, from the decks of the slave ship

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    The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist

    Marcus Rediker

    The extraordinary story of one of the first British men to oppose slavery

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    The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist With a New Preface

    Marcus Rediker

    The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of life

    In The Fearless Benjamin Lay, renowned historian Marcus Rediker…

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    The Slave Ship: A Human History

    Marcus Rediker

    Much is known of the American slave trade, but little of the ships that had made it all possible. Award-winning historian Rediker draws on 30 years of research in maritime…

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    Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age

    Marcus Rediker

    True tales of the pirates who ruled the seas during the eighteenth century

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    Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750

    Marcus Rediker (University of Pittsburgh)

    Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea focuses upon the seamen’s experience in order to illuminate larger historical issues such as the rise of capitalism, the genesis of free…

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    Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750

    Marcus Rediker (University of Pittsburgh)

    Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea focuses upon the seamen’s experience in order to illuminate larger historical issues such as the rise of capitalism, the genesis of free…

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    Prophet Against Slavery: Benjamin Lay, A Graphic History

    David Lester,Marcus Rediker

    Prophet against Slavery illustrates the life and times of an eighteenth-century dwarf abolitionist who performed guerrilla theater against slaveowners and became one of the first to demand immediate and abolition…

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    The Return of Benjamin Lay

    Naomi Wallace, Marcus Rediker

    In your hearts you know the truth: I was here among you three hundred years ago . . . Had you chosen differently then - before slavery and greed breathed…

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    Under the Banner of King Death: Pirates of the Atlantic, a Graphic Novel

    David Lester,Marcus Rediker,Marcus Rediker

    "Explores the sub-culture and resistance of eighteenth-century pirates, telling the tales of John Gwin, an African American fugitive from bondage in South Carolina; Ruben Dekker, a common seaman from Amsterdam…

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    The Many-Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic

    Marcus Rediker,Peter Linebaugh

    A fascinating investigation into the stories of the forgotten revolutionaries of the Atlantic.

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    The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic

    Peter Linebaugh,Marcus Rediker

    Using a decade of original research into the 17th and 18th century, this text unearths ideas and stories about liberty, democracy and freedom that terrified the ruling classes of the…

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    Prophet against Slavery

    David Lester

    The revolutionary life of an eighteenth-century dwarf activist who was among the first to fight against slavery and animal cruelty

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    Under the Banner of King Death

    David Lester, Marcus Rediker

    A graphic exploration of action, resistance, and radicalism among eighteenth-century pirates

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    Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World

    Presents a perspective on the history of forced migration over 3 centuries and illuminates the centrality of movements of people in making of this world. This book traces the history…

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    A Global History of Runaways: Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism, 1600-1850

    During global capitalism’s long ascent from 1600-1850, workers of all kinds-slaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and sailors-repeatedly ran away from their masters and bosses, with profound effects. A…

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    A Global History of Runaways: Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism, 1600-1850

    During global capitalism’s long ascent from 1600-1850, workers of all kinds-slaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and sailors-repeatedly ran away from their masters and bosses, with profound effects. A…

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    Mutiny and Maritime Radicalism in the Age of Revolution: A Global Survey

    This volume explores the transnational dimensions of mutiny and maritime radicalism during the great cycle of war and revolution that began in the mid-1750s and ran until the 1840s. The…

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