Marcus Buford Rediker Books
The Amistad rebellion
On June 28, 1839, the Spanish slave schooner Amistad set sail from Havana on a routine delivery of human cargo. On a moonless night, the captive Africans rose up, killed the captain, and seized con...
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Prophet Against Slavery
By David Lester With Afterwords By Paul Buhle, Marcus Rediker Illustrated By Da Vid Lester
The revolutionary life of an 18th-century dwarf activist who was among the first to fight against slavery and animal cruelty.Prophet Against Slavery is an action-packed chronicle of the remarkable...
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Under the Banner of King Death
By Marcus Rediker Illustrated By David Lester
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-ce...
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Under the Banner of King Death
By Marcus Rediker Illustrated By David Lester
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-ce...
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Outlaws of the Atlantic
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,...
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The Fearless Benjamin Lay
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...
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