Marcus Rediker visits the Literature and the Sea seminar at Johns Hopkins to lead a lecture and workshop on the topic “How to Write (Maritime) History from Below.”  This event is co-sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Tidewater initiative and the Maritime Committee of the Maryland Center for History and Culture. The JHU community and the public are welcome to attend.

Gilman Hall Room 130D

Rediker will also appear at Bird in Hand the previous evening to discuss his new book Freedom Ship.

Marcus Rediker is Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh. His “histories from below” have won numerous awards and appeared in twenty languages worldwide. He is the author of fifteen books, including The Many-Headed Hydra (with Peter Linebaugh) and The Slave Ship: A Human History (2007), which won the George Washington Book Prize. He produced a prize-winning documentary film, Ghosts of Amistad (2013), directed by Tony Buba, and a prize-winning play, The Return of Benjamin Lay, co-written with Naomi Wallace. His latest book, Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea, was published by Viking Penguin in May 2025.

For more information contact Harris Feinsod ([email protected])