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SUMMARY:Book Discussion with pre-eminent scholar Marcus Rediker: WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO KNOW THE HISTORY OF THE RESISTANCE TO SLAVERY?
DESCRIPTION:East Side Freedom Library\nMonday\, October 6\, 2025\, 7pm\nJoin historian Marcus Rediker\, author of the new book\, FREEDOM SHIP: THE UNCHARTED HISTORY OF ESCAPING SLAVERY BY SEA\, for a conversation about the many ways that enslaved men and women\, and their accomplices\, resisted slavery in the United States\, and how this is relevant to our understanding of the ways workers can organize — and are organizing — today.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs many as 100\,000 enslaved people fled successfully from the horrors of bondage in the antebellum South\, finding safe harbor along a network of passageways across North America now known as the Underground Railroad. Yet imagery of fugitives ushered clandestinely from safe house to safe house fails to capture the full breadth of these harrowing journeys: many escapes took place not by land but by sea. \nDeeply researched and grippingly told\, Freedom Ship offers a groundbreaking new look into the secret world of stowaways and the vessels that carried them to freedom across the North and into Canada. Sprawling through the intricate riverways of the Carolinas to the banks of the Chesapeake Bay to Boston’s harbors\, these tales illuminate the little-known stories of freedom seekers who turned their sights to the sea—among them the legendary abolitionist Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman\, one of the Underground Railroad’s most famous architects. \nMarcus Rediker is Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh. His “histories from below\,” including The Slave Ship: A Human History\, have won numerous awards\, and have been translated into nineteen languages worldwide. His books include Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age; Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Pirates and the Anglo-American World; Many Middle Passages: Forced Migrations and the Making of the Modern World\, and The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors\, Slaves\, Commoners and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (with Peter Linebaugh). He has produced a film\, Ghosts of Amistad\, with director Tony Buba\, and written a play\, The Return of Benjamin Lay\, with playwright Naomi Wallace. The Freedom Ship is Marcus’ new book\, just published.
URL:https://eastsidefreedomlibrary.org/event/book-discussion-with-pre-eminent-scholar-marcus-rediker-why-is-it-important-to-know-the-history-of-the-resistance-to-slavery/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106
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