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Marcus Rediker

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The Hidden Treasures of Pirate Democracy

In his final book, David Graeber looks at an experiment in radical democracy and piratical justice in Madagascar.

by Marcus Rediker via The Nation on March 21, 2023
Serendipity in the Archives

Or, a lost freedom story I found while looking for something else.

by Marcus Rediker via Public Seminar on August 25, 2021
A Motley Crew for our Times?

A conversation with historian Marcus Rediker about multiracial mobs, history from below and the memory of struggle.

by Marcus Rediker, Martina Tazzioli via Radical Philosophy on May 1, 2020
The "Quaker Comet" Was the Greatest Abolitionist You've Never Heard Of

Overlooked by historians, Benjamin Lay was one of the nation's first radicals to argue for an end to slavery.

by Marcus Rediker via Smithsonian on September 1, 2017
The Poetics of History from Below

All good storytellers tell a big story within a little story, and so do all good historians.

by Marcus Rediker via Perspectives on History on September 1, 2010

The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist

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Painting of a pond surrounded by lush vegetation.

A Paradise for All

The relentless radicalism of Benjamin Lay.

by Astra Taylor via Lapham’s Quarterly on March 21, 2023

Slavery Myths Debunked

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

by Jamelle Bouie, Rebecca Onion via Slate on September 29, 2015

Drawing of a classic pirate figure, wtih an earring, a tricorn hat, and a satchel, yelling orders at a crew while a ship burns in the background

Were Pirates Foes of the Modern Order—or Its Secret Sharers?

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

by Daniel Immerwahr via The New Yorker on July 15, 2024

Patricia Hearst in front of SLA flag, 1974; CSU Archives/Everett Collection/Alamy Stock Photo.

American Captivity

The captivity narrative as creation myth.

by Ed Simon via The Hedgehog Review on March 1, 2022

Le Marron Incconu, a statue of an enslaved man with a conch shell, dedicated to the abolishment of slavery.

Slave Rebellions and Mutinies Shaped the Age of Revolution

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

by Steven Hahn via Boston Review on April 22, 2021

The Contagious Revolution

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.

by David A. Bell via New York Review of Books on December 19, 2019

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