NEWS: Author recounts the history and impact of slave ships ...
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While researching the history of slave ships, University of Pittsburgh history professor Marcus Rediker came across accounts of captain James D'Wolf who, on one of his voyages, had a sick, enslaved woman bound, gagged and thrown overboard. Rediker, one of the nation's leading maritime historians, discussed the research he conducted for his book -- "The Slave Ship: A Human History" (2007), which ...

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