Marcus Rediker

The web of Atlantic trading routes and solidarity among maritime workers meant a fugitive's chances of reaching freedom below deck were better than over land.

We’ve long viewed them as liberty-loving rebels. But it’s time to take off the eye patch.

The relentless radicalism of Benjamin Lay.

The Irish were slaves too; slaves had it better than factory workvers; black people fought for the Confederacy; and so on.

A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.

The captivity narrative as creation myth.

Several recent books offer a more complete, bottom-up picture of the role sailors and Black political actors played in making the Atlantic world.

For a long time, European historians paid little attention to the extraordinary series of events that now goes by the name of the Haitian Revolution.