American Maritime History
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Slavery at Sea
- Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage
- By: Sowande’ M Mustakeem
- Narrated by: Mia Ellis
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Most times left solely within the confine of plantation narratives, slavery was far from a land-based phenomenon. This book reveals for the first time how it took critical shape at sea. Expanding the gaze even more widely, the book centers on how the oceanic transport of human cargoes - known as the infamous Middle Passage - comprised a violently regulated process foundational to the institution of bondage. Sowande' Mustakeem's groundbreaking study goes inside the Atlantic slave trade to explore the social conditions and human costs embedded in the world of maritime slavery.
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Appalling!! Badly written... badly narrated...
- By Mr. Kevin W. Boardman on 23-06-21
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Slavery at Sea
- Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage
- Narrated by: Mia Ellis
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 13-04-21
- Language: English
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Sowande' Mustakeem's groundbreaking study goes inside the Atlantic slave trade to explore the social conditions and human costs embedded in the world of maritime slavery....
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American Slavers
- Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644–1865
- By: Sean M. Kelley
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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A total of 305,000 enslaved Africans arrived in the New World aboard American vessels over a span of two hundred years as American merchants and mariners sailed to Africa and to the Caribbean to acquire and sell captives. Using exhaustive archival research, including many collections that have never been used before, historian Sean M. Kelley argues that slave trading needs to be seen as integral to the larger story of American slavery.
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American Slavers
- Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644–1865
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 30-05-23
- Language: English
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Historian Sean M. Kelley tells the unknown story of America's two-hundred-year history as a slave-trading nation....
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Brilliant Beacons
- A History of the American Lighthouse
- By: Eric Jay Dolin
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Set against the backdrop of an expanding nation, Brilliant Beacons traces the evolution of America's lighthouse system, highlighting the political, military, and technological battles fought to illuminate the nation's hardscrabble coastlines.
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Brilliant Beacons
- A History of the American Lighthouse
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 18-04-16
- Language: English
- Brilliant Beacons traces the evolution of America's lighthouse system, highlighting the political, military, and technological battles fought to illuminate the nation's hardscrabble coastlines....
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Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates
- The Forgotten War That Changed American History
- By: Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger
- Narrated by: Brian Kilmeade
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
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When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, America faced a crisis. The new nation was deeply in debt and needed its economy to grow quickly, but its merchant ships were under attack. Pirates from North Africa's Barbary coast routinely captured American sailors and held them as slaves, demanding ransom and tribute payments far beyond what the new country could afford.
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Ship made it to sure.
- By Nigel J. Aiken on 22-01-20
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Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates
- The Forgotten War That Changed American History
- Narrated by: Brian Kilmeade
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 03-11-15
- Language: English
- This is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers and what happened when America's third president decided to stand up to intimidation....
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Shipwrecked
- A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade
- By: Jonathan W. White
- Narrated by: Al Kessel
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Historian Jonathan W. White tells the riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-nineteenth century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, Cuban liberation, and the Civil War and Reconstruction. Most importantly, the book depicts the extraordinary lengths the Lincoln Administration went to destroy the illegal trans-Atlantic slave trade.
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Shipwrecked
- A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade
- Narrated by: Al Kessel
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 26-12-23
- Language: English
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Historian Jonathan W. White tells the riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-nineteenth century....
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The Rise of the American Navy
- Maritime Battles Through the First Hundred Years
- By: John Williams Ptolemy
- Narrated by: Joshua Mount
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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In its two centuries of existence, America has seen more than its fair share of momentous events. Through it all, the American Navy has not only been a witness but an active and key participant to the creation and progress of the country. It has grown and strengthened its capabilities - from having zero ships and zero expertise to becoming one of the largest fleets in the world.
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The Rise of the American Navy
- Maritime Battles Through the First Hundred Years
- Narrated by: Joshua Mount
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 31-01-22
- Language: English
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In its two centuries of existence, America has seen more than its fair share of momentous events. Through it all, the American Navy has not only been a witness but an active and key participant to the creation and progress of the country....
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The Lionkeeper of Algiers
- How an American Captive Rose to Power in Barbary and Saved His Homeland from War
- By: Des Ekin
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
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In 1785, a young American named James Leander Cathcart is kidnapped at sea and carried as prisoner to the maverick North African statelet of Algiers. The piratical corsairs of Algiers have decided to exploit the vulnerability of the United States by seizing its mariners and holding them for ransom. Today, the name of James Leander Cathcart has been all but forgotten.
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The Lionkeeper of Algiers
- How an American Captive Rose to Power in Barbary and Saved His Homeland from War
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 28-03-23
- Language: English
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In 1785, a young American named James Leander Cathcart is kidnapped at sea and carried as prisoner to the maverick North African statelet of Algiers....
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Small Boats and Daring Men
- Maritime Raiding, Irregular Warfare, and the Early American Navy, Volume 66 (Campaigns and Commanders Series)
- By: Benjamin Armstrong
- Narrated by: Bob Neufeld
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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Beginning with the Continental Navy, Small Boats and Daring Men traces maritime missions through the wars of the early republic, from the coast of modern-day Libya to the rivers and inlets of the Chesapeake Bay. Armstrong brings a uniquely informed perspective to his subject; and his work is at once an exciting narrative of danger and combat at sea and a thoroughgoing analysis of how these events fit into concepts of American sea power.
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Small Boats and Daring Men
- Maritime Raiding, Irregular Warfare, and the Early American Navy, Volume 66 (Campaigns and Commanders Series)
- Narrated by: Bob Neufeld
- Series: Campaigns and Commanders
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 07-04-21
- Language: English
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Beginning with the Continental Navy, Small Boats and Daring Men traces maritime missions through the wars of the early republic, from the coast of modern-day Libya to the rivers and inlets of the Chesapeake Bay....
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Pirates of the Slave Trade
- The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution
- By: Angela C. Sutton
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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No one present at the Battle of Cape Lopez off the coast of West Africa in 1722 could have known that they were on the edge of history. This obscure yet fierce naval battle would have a monumental impact on British colonies and the future of slavery in America.
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Pirates of the Slave Trade
- The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 05-11-24
- Language: English
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No one present at the Battle of Cape Lopez off the coast of West Africa in 1722 could have known that they were on the edge of history. This obscure yet fierce naval battle would have a monumental impact on British colonies and the future of slavery in America.
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The Rest I Will Kill
- William Tillman and the Unforgettable Story of How a Free Black Man Refused to Become a Slave
- By: Brian McGinty
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
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On July 4, 1861, the schooner S. J. Waring set sail from New York on a routine voyage to South America. Seventeen days later it limped back into New York's harbor with the ship's black cook and steward at the helm. While the story of that ill-fated voyage is one of the most harrowing tales of captivity and survival on the high seas, it has been tragically lost to history. Now reclaiming William Tillman as the American hero he deserves to be, historian Brian McGinty takes listeners on a courageous journey.
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The Rest I Will Kill
- William Tillman and the Unforgettable Story of How a Free Black Man Refused to Become a Slave
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 16-08-16
- Language: English
- On July 4, 1861, the schooner S. J. Waring set sail from New York on a routine voyage to South America. Seventeen days later it limped back into New York's harbor....
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The Explosion of the SS Sultana
- The Deadliest Maritime Disaster in American History
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Ronald Printz
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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There is a popular saying that declares "timing is everything", and in no other field of study is that truer than in history. For instance, under normal conditions, a ship that sank with more than 2,000 passengers aboard - most of whom died - would be big news, yet today the sinking of the SS Sultana is often overlooked if not entirely forgotten.
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The Explosion of the SS Sultana
- The Deadliest Maritime Disaster in American History
- Narrated by: Ronald Printz
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Release date: 03-04-15
- Language: English
- A ship that sank with more than 2,000 passengers aboard - most of whom died - would be big news, yet today the sinking of the SS Sultana is often overlooked if not entirely forgotten....
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Hard Aground
- The Wreck of the USS Tennessee and the Rise of the US Navy
- By: Andrew C. A. Jampoler
- Narrated by: Chris Monteiro
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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Hard Aground brings together three intertwined stories documenting the US Navy's strategic and materiel evolution from the end of Civil War through the First World War. The first story focuses on the reconstruction of the US Navy following the swift and near-total dismantling of the Union Navy infrastructure after the Civil War. Jampoler argues that the federal government discovered that the fleet requested by the navy, and paid for by Congress, was the wrong fleet.
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Hard Aground
- The Wreck of the USS Tennessee and the Rise of the US Navy
- Narrated by: Chris Monteiro
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 16-01-24
- Language: English
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Hard Aground brings together three intertwined stories documenting the US Navy's strategic and materiel evolution from the end of Civil War through the First World War....
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The Naval War of 1812-1815
- Foundation of America's Maritime Might
- By: Charles Raskob Robinson
- Narrated by: Del-Bourree Bach
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
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This is the exciting story about how the young American Republic established the United States Navy, Marine Corps and Revenue Cutter Service (the predecessor to the Coast Guard), designed and built the most powerful class of frigate in the world, trained its seamen in gunnery and naval warfare and gained battle experience in the Quasi-War with France in 1798-1800 and the Barbary War ("Shores of Tripoli") in 1801-1805.
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The Naval War of 1812-1815
- Foundation of America's Maritime Might
- Narrated by: Del-Bourree Bach
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 10-07-15
- Language: English
- In the era of fighting sail when ships were made of wood and men of iron, the narrator takes us into the action of the three principal theaters of the War of 1812....
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