Prophet against Slavery

The revolutionary life of an eighteenth-century dwarf activist who was among the first to fight against slavery and animal cruelty

Powerful charcoal sketches and ... haunting images remind readers of the human cost of slavery without presuming to speak for those whose voices have been excluded from the written archive.

Marcus Rediker is Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh and Senior Research Fellow at the Collège d'études mondiales in Paris. He is the author of numerous prize-winning books, including The Many-Headed Hydra (with Peter Linebaugh), The Slave Ship , and The Amistad Rebellion . He produced the award-winning documentary film Ghosts of Amistad (Tony Buba, director), about how the Amistad Mutiny of 1839 lives on today in popular memory among the people of Sierra Leone.

David Lester is the co-creator of the graphic novels The Listener and the award-winning 1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike . His poster of anti-war protester Malachi Ritscher was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.