Historian (from below), award-winning author, filmmaker, playwright, Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh
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Thinking of my uncle, Ted Robertson (1942-1999), the coolest guy in the world, I thought as a kid. He rode big motorcycles, jumped out airplanes as a paratrooper, made money as a pool shark, and was a well-known Western artist, based in New Mexico. Here is a self-portrait from 1982.
Honored to work with New Orleans-based artist Marcus Brown on his new augmented reality art memorial entitled “Docks Noirs,” on the Black maritime workers who helped thousands escape slavery by sea, opening on Juneteenth in NYC, At right are sailor-abolitionist David Ruggles and Frederick Douglass.
Calling all teachers, middle school, high school, community college, and universities: consider using our graphic novels in your teaching next fall. We have radical abolitionist Benjamin Lay; pirates; the New York Afro-Irish revolt of 1741; and the Amistad Rebellion.
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I hope teachers at all levels will request a desk copy or an examination copy of our new graphic novel *The Black Schooner*, to be published next week, June 9, by Beacon Press. Follow the link below.
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Publication day! Our new book, *The Black Schooner: Rebellion on the Amistad, A Graphic Novel*, is published today by @beaconpress.bsky.social — our fourth such “history from below.” It’s a dramatic, deeply human story, brilliantly illustrated, about the epic themes of slavery and resistance.
Marcus Rediker
Marcus Rediker
I was interviewed by Joan Cebrian about “history from below” for a new journal, *Ráfec,* published in the Catalán language. (Read it by using Google Translate.) I talk about themes from from my next book, “History from Below: The Making of a Radical Tradition.”
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A thrilling memory. When I was 7 years-old I attended a baseball game with my father in Cleveland and got a foul ball by the great Cuban player Minnie Minoso, one of my favorite athletes of all time and later elected to the Hall of Fame. My father later got Minnie to sign it. Anyone remember him?
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Happy #PublicationDay, @marcusrediker.bsky.social, David Lester & Paul Buhle! ✊🏽
THE BLACK SCHOONER, a stunning graphic history of the enslaved Africans’ Amistad rebellion of 1839, is “a necessary and unique, expectation-shattering chronicle.” — @libraryjournal.bsky.social, ⭐️Starred Review
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Can't recommend enough @ztameez.bsky.social book on the life of Charles Sumner. Couple this w @marcusrediker.bsky.social Benjamin Lay bio and you'll educate yourself this summer in a meaningful way.
