Menu
  • Excerpts
  • Exhibits
  • Collections
  • Originals
  • Categories
  • Map
  • Search
Book

Freedom Ship

The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea
  • Marcus Rediker
2025
Viking Press

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Loading...

  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  

Featured Excerpts

Fugitives from slavery disembarking from a boat to waiting coaches.
Book Review

The Underground Railroad’s Stealth Sailors

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.
by Eric Foner via New York Review of Books on October 2, 2025
  • About Bunk
  • Who We Are
  • How Bunk Works
  • For Educators
  • Recommend a Resource
  • Bunk on Instagram
  • Bunk on Twitter
  • Bunk on Bluesky
brought to you by
© Bunk History