Marcus Rediker
Author · 8 books
Marcus Rediker is Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh and Senior Research Fellow at the Collège d’études mondiales in Paris. He is the author of numerous prize-winning books, including The Many-Headed Hydra (with Peter Linebaugh), The Slave Ship, and The Amistad Rebellion. He produced the award-winning documentary film Ghosts of Amistad (Tony Buba, director), about how the Amistad Mutiny of 1839 lives on today in popular memory among the people of Sierra Leone.
Books
The Amistad Rebellion
An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom
2012
Under the Banner of King Death
Pirates of the Atlantic
2023
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750
1987
The Slave Ship
A Human History
2007
Outlaws of the Atlantic
Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail
2013
The Fearless Benjamin Lay
The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist
2017
Villains of All Nations
Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
2004
Prophet Against Slavery
Benjamin Lay
2021
