Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea
May 4 at 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm CDT
Monday, May 4: Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea
Historian Marcus Rediker, in conversation with Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian, will discuss his books Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea and The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, and talks about the many enslaved people who fled successfully from the horrors of bondage in the antebellum South not by land but by sea.