{"product_id":"freedom-ship-by-marcus-rediker-9781836741718","title":"Freedom Ship","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFreedom Ship\u003c\/em\u003e is a gripping history of stowaway slaves and the vessels that carried them to liberty. Up to 100,000 fugitives successfully fled the horrors of bondage in the American South. Many were ushered clandestinely northwards from safe house to safe house, known as the Underground Railway. Thousands of others escaped not by land, but by sea. Their dramatic tales of whispered conspiracy and billowing sails make \u003cem\u003eFreedom Ship\u003c\/em\u003e essential and enthralling reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough the intricate riverways of the Carolinas to the banks of the Chesapeake Bay, \u003cem\u003eFreedom Ship\u003c\/em\u003e traces the freedom seekers who turned their sights to the sea. Sailaways regularly arrived in Britain on cotton ships from New York or Southern ports. For example, Moses Roper, one of the most determined runaways in American history, travelled 350 miles through slave country before eventually taking a ship named the Napoleon to Liverpool. Both legendary abolitionists Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman used the waterfront as a path to freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMarcus Rediker puts his command of archival research on full display in this luminous portrait of the Atlantic seaboard as a place of conspiracy, mutiny, and liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eThe Slave Ship\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘I’m rereading \u003cem\u003eThe Slave Ship\u003c\/em\u003e by Marcus Rediker, because it’s an absolutely fantastic book’\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eDavid Olusoga\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘A truly magnificent book’\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A shockingly vivid work ... from a gifted chronicler of history's lower decks, at home in the unruly Atlantic world of pirates, slavers, sailors, runaways and rebels'\u003cbr\u003e\nBoyd Tonkin, \u003cem\u003eIndependent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47548193800428,"sku":"9781836741718","price":52.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/b7f03b9b0f47363ad1b4411a4ce014bd.jpg?v=1776900853","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/freedom-ship-by-marcus-rediker-9781836741718","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}