Marcus Rediker

El prestigioso historiador Marcus Rediker arroja luz sobre los rincones más oscuros de los barcos esclavistas británicos y estadounidenses del siglo XVIII, instrumento imprescindible de la mayor migracion forzada de la historia y una de las claves de los origenes y el crecimiento del capitalismo global.Basandose en treinta años de investigacion en archivos maritimos, registros judiciales, diarios y relatos de primera mano, reconstruye con escalofriante detalle un mundo casi perdido en la historia: las carceles flotantes al frente del nacimiento de la cultura afroamericana, el eslabon perdido en la cadena de la esclavitud estadounidense.Durante tres siglos, los barcos de esclavos transportaron a millones de personas desde las costas de Africa hasta las Americas a traves del Atlantico. Se sabe mucho sobre el comercio de esclavos o el sistema de plantaciones estadounidense, pero poco sobre los barcos que lo hicieron posible. Rediker recrea el drama humano que se desarrollaba en estas embarcaciones, las vidas, muertes y terrores de capitanes, marineros y esclavos a bordo de una prision flotante rodeada de tiburones. Desde un joven africano secuestrado de su aldea y vendido como esclavo por una tribu vecina hasta un aspirante a sacerdote que acepta un trabajo como marinero en un barco de esclavos, aqui se narra una historia de tragedia y terror, pero tambien de resiliencia y supervivencia.Un documento imprescindible que restaura el barco de esclavos a su lugar legitimo junto a la plantacion como instituciones formadoras de la esclavitud, un retrato vivido e inolvidable del barco fantasma de nuestra conciencia moderna.

Markus Rediker trace le portrait dune magnifique figure de la lutte pour labolition de lesclavage. Né en 1682 en Angleterre, Benjamin Lay fut tour à tour berger, gantier, marin. Il vécut dans la camp

Marcus Rediker est le grand historien des hors-la-loi de lAtlantique. Il explore ici le monde fascinant de laventure maritime du point de vue des pirates, flibustiers, travailleurs forcés en révolte, esclaves marrons, fuyards et autres mutins, qui ont defie lautorite depuis le pont inferieur des navires. Il nous fait entrer dans leur univers de recits et de contes de marins, retrouver la signification de leurs tatouages, comprendre les formes dorganisation egalitaire au sein de la piraterie et les rebellions de differentes categories de travailleurs de la mer asservis europeens et africains de ces " equipages bigarres ", penetres desprit revolutionnaire et defendant leur liberte par le feu et par les armes. Il montre a quel point, entre le xviie et debut du xixe siecle, ces hommes ont façonne lhistoire du monde contemporain trop longtemps focalisee sur le national, le role des elites politiques et lhistoire " terrestre ".Traduit de langlais (Etats-Unis) par Aurelien Blanchard.Marcus Rediker est professeur dhistoire atlantique a luniversite de Pittsburg. Historien, ecrivain et militant des droits de lhomme, il est specialiste de lhistoire maritime et notamment de lAtlantique. Il a publie neuf livres, parmi lesquels A bord du negrier. Une histoire atlantique de la traite (Seuil, 2013, George Washington Book Prize) et Les Revoltes de lAmistad. Une odyssee atlantique (Seuil, 2015).

Marcus Rediker est le grand historien des hors-la-loi de lAtlantique. Il explore ici le monde fascinant de laventure maritime du point de vue des pirates, flibustiers, travailleurs forcés en révolte, esclaves marrons, fuyards et autres mutins, qui ont defie lautorite depuis le pont inferieur des navires. Il nous fait entrer dans leur univers de recits et de contes de marins, retrouver la signification de leurs tatouages, comprendre les formes dorganisation egalitaire au sein de la piraterie et les rebellions de differentes categories de travailleurs de la mer asservis europeens et africains de ces " equipages bigarres ", penetres desprit revolutionnaire et defendant leur liberte par le feu et par les armes. Il montre a quel point, entre le xviie et debut du xixe siecle, ces hommes ont façonne lhistoire du monde contemporain trop longtemps focalisee sur le national, le role des elites politiques et lhistoire " terrestre ".Traduit de langlais (Etats-Unis) par Aurelien Blanchard.Marcus Rediker est professeur dhistoire atlantique a luniversite de Pittsburg. Historien, ecrivain et militant des droits de lhomme, il est specialiste de lhistoire maritime et notamment de lAtlantique. Il a publie neuf livres, parmi lesquels A bord du negrier. Une histoire atlantique de la traite (Seuil, 2013, George Washington Book Prize) et Les Revoltes de lAmistad. Une odyssee atlantique (Seuil, 2015).

Pendant les quatre cents ans que dura la traite négrière, du XVe au XIXe siècle, plus de quatorze millions de prisonniers africains réduits en esclavage traversèrent lAtlantique pour devenir une main

Le 28 juin 1839, lAmistad faisait voile depuis La Havane avec a son bord une cargaison desclaves. Au cours de cette nuit sans lune, les captifs africains se souleverent, tuerent le capitaine et prirent le controle du navire. Alors quils essayaient datteindre un port sur, leur navire fut arrete par la Marine des Etats-Unis et les rebelles furent incarceres dans une prison du Connecticut. Leur bataille juridique pour recouvrer la liberte remonta jusqua la Cour Supreme, ou leur cas fut defendu par lancien president des Etats-Unis, John Quincy Adams. Le jugement fit date. Les insurges furent liberes et purent rentrer en Afrique.Si cette rebellion est lun des episodes les plus connus de lhistoire de lesclavage americain, elle est avant tout celebree comme le triomphe du systeme legal americain et comme la victoire des abolitionnistes. En racontant cette aventure du point de vue des rebelles eux-memes, Marcus Rediker leur redonne une voix et un destin. Il retrace les trajectoires qui jeterent dans les chaines de lesclavage ces hommes captures en Sierra Leone, en pays mende. La plupart dentre eux parlaient plus dune langue ; plusieurs etaient des guerriers ; beaucoup etaient membre dune societe secrete, le Poro. Tous disposaient de ressources et etaient capables de nouer de solides relations au-dela de leur cercle familial. Cetaient deja des hommes habitues a laction collective.Leur histoire nous est ici contee pour la premiere fois.Traduit de langlais (Etats-Unis) par Aurelien Blanchard.Marcus Rediker est professeur distingue dhistoire atlantique a luniversite de Pittsburg. Historien, ecrivain et militant des droits de lhomme, il est specialiste de lhistoire maritime et notamment de lAtlantique. Il a publie neuf livres, parmi lesquels A bord du negrier. Une histoire atlantique de la traite (Seuil, 2013).

Pendant les quatre cents ans que dura la traite négrière, du XVe au XIXe siècle, plus de quatorze millions de prisonniers africains réduits en esclavage traversèrent lAtlantique pour devenir une main

Qui étaient les pirates ? Au nom de quel idéal ont-ils hissé leur drapeau à tête de mort, cet énigmatique « Jolly Roger » ? En quoi ont-ils perturbé durablement le commerce colonial et les traites né

Le 28 juin 1839, lAmistad faisait voile depuis La Havane avec a son bord une cargaison desclaves. Au cours de cette nuit sans lune, les captifs africains se souleverent, tuerent le capitaine et prirent le controle du navire. Alors quils essayaient datteindre un port sur, leur navire fut arrete par la Marine des Etats-Unis et les rebelles furent incarceres dans une prison du Connecticut. Leur bataille juridique pour recouvrer la liberte remonta jusqua la Cour Supreme, ou leur cas fut defendu par lancien president des Etats-Unis, John Quincy Adams. Le jugement fit date. Les insurges furent liberes et purent rentrer en Afrique.Si cette rebellion est lun des episodes les plus connus de lhistoire de lesclavage americain, elle est avant tout celebree comme le triomphe du systeme legal americain et comme la victoire des abolitionnistes. En racontant cette aventure du point de vue des rebelles eux-memes, Marcus Rediker leur redonne une voix et un destin. Il retrace les trajectoires qui jeterent dans les chaines de lesclavage ces hommes captures en Sierra Leone, en pays mende. La plupart dentre eux parlaient plus dune langue ; plusieurs etaient des guerriers ; beaucoup etaient membre dune societe secrete, le Poro. Tous disposaient de ressources et etaient capables de nouer de solides relations au-dela de leur cercle familial. Cetaient deja des hommes habitues a laction collective.Leur histoire nous est ici contee pour la premiere fois.Traduit de langlais (Etats-Unis) par Aurelien Blanchard.Marcus Rediker est professeur distingue dhistoire atlantique a luniversite de Pittsburg. Historien, ecrivain et militant des droits de lhomme, il est specialiste de lhistoire maritime et notamment de lAtlantique. Il a publie neuf livres, parmi lesquels A bord du negrier. Une histoire atlantique de la traite (Seuil, 2013).

Markus Rediker trace le portrait dune magnifique figure de la lutte pour labolition de lesclavage. Né en 1682 en Angleterre, Benjamin Lay fut tour à tour berger, gantier, marin. Il vécut dans la camp

Winner of the International Labor History AwardLong before the American Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a motley crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, laborers, market women, and indentured servants had ideas about freedom and equality that would forever change history. The Many Headed-Hydra recounts their stories in a sweeping history of the role of the dispossessed in the making of the modern world.When an unprecedented expansion of trade and colonization in the early seventeenth century launched the first global economy, a vast, diverse, and landless workforce was born. These workers crossed national, ethnic, and racial boundaries, as they circulated around the Atlantic world on trade ships and slave ships, from England to Virginia, from Africa to Barbados, and from the Americas back to Europe.Marshaling an impressive range of original research from archives in the Americas and Europe, the authors show how ordinary working people led dozens of rebellions on both sides of the North Atlantic. The rulers of the day called the multiethnic rebels a hydra and brutally suppressed their risings, yet some of their ideas fueled the age of revolution. Others, hidden from history and recovered here, have much to teach us about our common humanity.

This maritime history "from below" exposes the history-making power of common sailors, slaves, pirates, and other outlaws at sea in the era of the tall ship. In Outlaws of the Atlantic, award-winning historian Marcus Rediker turns maritime history upside down. He explores the dramatic world of maritime adventure, not from the perspective of admirals, merchants, and nation-states but from the viewpoint of commonerssailors, slaves, indentured servants, pirates, and other outlaws from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. Bringing together their seafaring experiences for the first time, Outlaws of the Atlantic is an unexpected and compelling peoples history of the age of sail. With his signature bottom-up approach and insight, Rediker reveals how the motleythat is, multiethniccrews were a driving force behind the American Revolution; that pirates, enslaved Africans, and other outlaws worked together to subvert capitalism; and that, in the era of the tall ship, outlaws challenged authority from below deck. By bringing these marginal seafaring characters into the limelight, Rediker shows how maritime actors have shaped history that many have long regarded as national and landed. And by casting these rebels by sea as cosmopolitan workers of the world, he reminds us that to understand the rise of capitalism, globalization, and the formation of race and class, we must look to the sea.

A definitive, sweeping account of the Underground Railroads 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 Bostons harbors, these tales illuminate the little-known stories of freedom seekers who turned their sights to the seaamong them the legendary abolitionist Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, one of the Underground Railroads 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 Americas most significant historical moments.

Villains of All Nations explores the Golden Age of Atlantic piracy (1716-1726) and the infamous generation whose images underlie our modern, romanticized view of pirates.Rediker introduces us to the dreaded black flag, the Jolly Roger; swashbuckling figures such as Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard; and the unnamed, unlimbed pirate who was likely Robert Louis Stevensons model for Long John Silver in Treasure Island.This history shows from the bottom up how sailors emerged from deadly working conditions on merchant and naval ships, turned pirate, and created a starkly different reality aboard their own ships, electing their officers, dividing their booty equitably, and maintaining a multinational social order. The real lives of this motley crew-which included cross-dressing women, people of color, and theoutcasts of all nations-are far more compelling than contemporary myth.

The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of lifeIn The Fearless Benjamin Lay, renowned historian Marcus Rediker chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular mana Quaker dwarf who demanded the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world. Mocked and scorned by his contemporaries, Lay was unflinching in his opposition to slavery, often performing colorful guerrilla theater to shame slave masters, insisting that human bondage violated the fundamental principles of Christianity. He drew on his ideals to create a revolutionary way of life, one that embodied the proclamation no justice, no peace.Lay was born in 1682 in Essex, England. His philosophies, employments, and places of residencespanning England, Barbados, Philadelphia, and the open seaswere markedly diverse over the course of his life. He worked as a shepherd, glove maker, sailor, and bookseller. His worldview was an astonishing combination of Quakerism, vegetarianism, animal rights, opposition to the death penalty, and abolitionism.While in Abington, Philadelphia, Lay lived in a cave-like dwelling surrounded by a library of two hundred books, and it was in this unconventional abode where he penned a fiery and controversial book against bondage, which Benjamin Franklin published in 1738. Always in motion and ever confrontational, Lay maintained throughout his life a steadfast opposition to slavery and a fierce determination to make his fellow Quakers denounce it, which they finally began to do toward the end of his life.With passion and historical rigor, Rediker situates Lay as a man who fervently embodied the ideals of democracy and equality as he practiced a unique concoction of radicalism nearly three hundred years ago. Rediker resurrects this forceful and prescient visionary, who speaks to us across the ages and whose innovative approach to activism is a gift, transforming how we consider the past and how we might imagine the future.

Abans de la Declaració dels Drets de l’Home i el Ciutadà, una tripulació heterogènia formada per mariners, esclaus, pirates, treballadors, venedores de mercat i servents contractats ja sostenia idees

"Vividly drawn . . . this stunning book honors the achievement of the captive Africans who fought forand wontheir freedom.The Philadelphia TribuneA unique account of the most successful slave rebellion in American history, now updated with a new epiloguefrom the award-winning author of The Slave ShipIn this powerful and highly original account, Marcus Rediker reclaims the Amistad rebellion for its true proponents: the enslaved Africans who risked death to stake a claim for freedom. Using newly discovered evidence and featuring vividly drawn portraits of the rebels, their captors, and their abolitionist allies, Rediker reframes the story to show how a small group of courageous men fought and won an epic battle against Spanish and American slaveholders and their governments. The successful Amistad rebellion changed the very nature of the struggle against slavery. As a handful of self-emancipated Africans steered their own course for freedom, they opened a way for millions to follow.This edition includes a new epilogue about the authors trip to Sierra Leona to search for Lomboko, the slave-trading factory where the Amistad Africans were incarcerated, and other relics and connections to the Amistad rebellion, especially living local memory of the uprising and the people who made it.

A stunning graphic history of how enslaved Africans on board the Amistad rebelled and captured the slave ship in 1839, challenging a whitewashed version of history and putting the Africans back at the center of their own freedom storyFrom the trio of Rediker, Lester, and Buhle comes another graphic "history from below" about the Amistad rebellion of 1839 when 53 enslaved Africans on the slave ship Amistad slipped out of their restraints and overpowered their enslavers and ships crew. Sold into slavery in their homeland of Sierra Leone and later bound for Puerto Principe, Cuba, from Havana, these Africans, led by the charismatic warrior Cinque, forced the ships remaining crew to sail homeward.Divided into 3 parts, The Black Schooner begins with the intense night of the uprising and takes readers on a reconstructed journey: from sailing on the open ocean to a New Haven, Connecticut, jail, where the captured Africans awaited trial for mutiny and murder; to the Supreme courtroom that found that the rebels had been illegally enslaved and would now be free to return to their native land. Through it all, artist David Lester chronicles their story using striking imagery, showing how they achieved an unexpected and powerful international victory for the abolitionist movement and forced some of the most powerful people in the world to confront the issue of human bondage.Based on Redikers book The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom, The Black Schooner challenges a whitewashed history and instead, puts the Africans back at the center of their own freedom storywhere they belong.

Featuring an African American fugitive from bondage, an undercover woman, and outcasts of all nations, an arresting graphic exploration of the resistance and radical vision of 18th-century piratesA tale of mutiny, bloody battle, and social revolution, Under the Banner of King Death novelizes for the first time the real pirates, an itinerant community of outsiders, behind our legends. This graphic novel breaks new ground in our understanding of piracy and pirate culture, giving us more reasons to love the rebellious and stouthearted marauders of the high seas.Set at the pinnacle of the Golden Age of Atlantic piracy, this novel follows three unlikely companions, who are sold into servitude on a merchant ship and unwittingly thrust into a voyage of rebellion.They are: John Gwin, an African American fugitive from bondage in South Carolina Ruben Dekker, a common seaman from Amsterdam Mark/Mary Reed, an American woman who defies stereotypes by dressing as a man. Mutiny ensues against the tyrannical Captain Skinner, who is thrown overboard to make way for democracy aboard The Night Rambler. The crews new order provides radical social benefits, all based on real, documented practices of contemporary pirate ships: democratic decision-making, a social security net, health and disability insurance, and equal distribution of spoils taken from prize ships.Its not long before the London elites enlist a war-hungry captain to take down The Night Rambler and start a war of high society versus high-seas pirates. Adapted from the scholarship and research of historian Marcus Rediker, Under the Banner of King Death will inspire readers with its tale of those on the bottom fighting back and achieving, against all odds, a democratic and egalitarian social order, if only for a short time.