Mount Vernon Bookshop DVD's, CD's and Videos Gifts & Reproductions Furniture & Home Décor Children's Corner In the Garden Christmas at Mount Vernon Gourmet Gifts New! New! New! Sale! Sale! Sale! Teaching Resources Membership Donate Home   Mount Vernon Book Shop / African American History – Slave Life The Slave Ship: A Human History By Marcus Rediker. ISBN 978-0-670-01823-9. Hardcover with 434 pages including notes, index and 28 pages of maps and illustrations. Copyright 2007. Finalist for the 2008 George Washington Book Prize. In this intimate human history of an inhuman institution, Marcus Rediker shines a light into the darkest corners of the British and American slave ships of the eighteenth century. Drawing on thirty years of research in maritime archives, including court records, diaries, memoirs, and interviews conducted by abolitionists along the waterfront, the author illuminates the lives of people who were thought to have left without a trace. Item #: 14933 Price: $27.95 Qty: Sons of Providence: the Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade and the American Revolution Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution 1812: War with America

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