Summary: Marcus Rediker. visits The Context of White Supremacy. The Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh, Mr. Rediker is an award-winning author and historian with a research focus on the enslavement of black people. He's invested years of time in the campaign to abolish the death penalty. On a previous C.O.W.S. broadcast, Dr. Frances Cress Welsing referenced his 2007 publication, The Slave Ship: A Human History. The book offers a comprehensive study of the experience on a slave vessel. Rediker provides information on the construction of the ships, the formation of the ship's crew, and the theft of Africans. He consistently reminds readers that slave ships were equivalent to a moving prison and mandated that the stolen Africans be subjected to unending terrorism. Interestingly, Rediker writes that the slave ship crystalized the creation of the White race. Mr. Rediker was also a consultant on this summer's re-boot of Roots. We'll get his thoughts on why black bondage has become fodder for Hollywood scripts. #RacismIsNotAPrivilege INVEST in The COWS - http://paypal.me/GusTRenegade CALL IN NUMBER: 641.715.3640 CODE: 564943# The C.O.W.S. archives: http://tiny.cc/76f6p
