L2 - A World Changing Machine

Question 1

(Rediker, 2007:13)

Answer 1

‘The slaver is a ghost ship sailing on the edges of modern consciousness.’

Question 2

‘Ship as a…’ (Rediker, 2007:9)

Answer 2

Ship as a factory, machine, prison

Question 3

violence as a =

Answer 3

production method - ‘on the coast of Africa, sailors would become “white men”. When loaded on board, Africans would become “black people.” (Rediker, 2007:10)

Question 4

(Rediker 2007:1)

Answer 4

‘Ships also ‘produced’ slaves within the ship as factory, doubling their economic value as they moved them from a market on the eastern atlantic to one in the west, and helping them to create the labour power that animated a growing world economy in the 18th century and after…’