Marcus Rediker
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About
Author, editor, historian, and professor. He has 12 titles to his name, including The Fearless Benjamin Lay, A Global History of Runaways, and Prophet Against Slavery. He is a Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh. He taught at Georgetown University from 1982 to 1994.
Before Fame
He began studying at Vanderbilt University, but dropped out and returned to Virginia Commonwealth University. He graduated with his BA in 1976. He went on to earn graduate degrees in history at the University of Pennsylvania.
Trivia
He is also an activist and has worked to abolish the death penalty. naomi
Family Life
He was born to Buford and Faye Rediker in Owensboro, Kentucky. The family relocated and he grew up in Nashville, Tennessee and Richmond, Virginia.
Associated With
Bell Hooks was another American scholar that wrote about race and history.
