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 ch
A maritime history reveals the essential roles of common sailors, slaves, pirates and outlaws in shaping the era of the tall ship. By the award-winning author of The Slave Ship.
In this widely praised history of an infamous institution, award-winning scholar Marcus Rediker shines a light into the darkest corners of the British and American slave ships of the eighteenth centur
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
