Marcus Rediker

En esta trepidante historia, Peter Linebaugh y Marcus Rediker nos ofrecen otra interpretación de la formación del mundo moderno. En su vindicación de la «historia desde abajo», los protagonistas no s

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.

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

In a chilling exploration of a nearly forgotten chapter of history, Marcus Rediker delves into the dark depths of slave ships in the 18th century.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 century. With meticulous detail, Rediker uncovers the harsh realities of the slave trade, shedding light on the inhumane treatment of captives and the power dynamics aboard the ships. From the economic motivations driving the trade to the efforts of abolitionists, this book reveals the birth of African American culture amidst a backdrop of horror and despair.Drawing on thirty years of research in maritime archives, court records, diaries, and firsthand accounts, The Slave Ship is riveting and sobering in its revelations, reconstructing in chilling detail a world nearly lost to history: the "floating dungeons" at the forefront of the birth of African American culture. Thisis a powerful and important addition to the study of history, shedding light on a tragedy that should never be forgotten.

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.

"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.

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 overthrow the colonial social orderRebel fugitive John Gwin was previously introduced in Under the Banner of King Death and this graphic novel continues his adventures. Revolution by Fire is a hypothetical look at the inner workings of the so called New York Conspiracy or "Slave Rebellion" of 1741, following the figures who were considered the real-life masterminds of the plot.Featuring an eclectic crew of African-American, Irish, and mixed race Hispanic sailors, soldiers, and renegades, Gwin and his band are determined to capture New York City in their own names and fight the higher class wigs and ruffles wearing white people. Unfortunately for the conspirators, suspicions about an uprising were already in the minds of the Governor and his fellow elites, and the events that followed change the course of everyones lives forever.Based on the chapter titled Outcasts of the Nations of the Earth in Redikers and Peter Linebaughs The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, the book provides a fly-on-the-wall view of a historical event reimagined, highlighting cooperation among races and classes that transcends the social order of its timeand inspire us today.