Empire of necessity slavery, freedom, and deception in the New World
"One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal hunter, climbed aboard a distressed Spanish ship carrying scores of West Africans he thought were slaves. They weren't. In fact, they were performing an elaborate ruse, having risen up earlier an...
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Empire of necessity : |b slavery, freedom, and deception in the New World / |c Greg Grandin. |
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| 260 | |a New York : |b Picador, |c 2015. | ||
| 300 | |a 360 p., [16] p. of plates : |b ill., maps ; |c 21 cm. | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Part I. Fast fish. Hawks abroad ; More liberty ; A lion without a crown ; Body and soul ; A conspiracy of lifting and throwing ; Interlude: I never could look at death without a shudder -- Part II. A loose fish. As uitable guide to bliss ; The levelling system ; South of sea dreams ; Interlude: Black will always have something melancholy in it -- Part III. The new extreme. The skin trade ; Falling man ; The crossing ; Diamonds on the soles of their feet ; Interlude: Heaven's sense -- Part IV. Further. Killing seals ; Isolatos ; A terrific sovereignty ; Slavery has grades ; Interlude: A merry repast -- Part V. If God wills ; Night of power ; The story of the San Juan ; Mohammed's cursed sect ; Interlude: Abominable, contemptible Hayti -- Part VI. Who ain't a slave? Desperation ; Deception ; Retribution ; Conviction ; Interlude: The machinery of civilization -- Part VII. General average. Lima, or the law of general average ; The lucky one ; Undistributed ; Epilogue: Herman Melville's America. | |
| 520 | |a "One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal hunter, climbed aboard a distressed Spanish ship carrying scores of West Africans he thought were slaves. They weren't. In fact, they were performing an elaborate ruse, having risen up earlier and slaughtered most of the crew and officers. When Delano, an idealistic, anti-slavery republican, finally realized the deception--the men and women he thought were humble slaves were actually running the ship--he rallied his crew to respond with explosive violence. Drawing on research from four continents, The Empire of Necessity is the untold history of this extraordinary event and its bloody aftermath. Delano's blindness that day has already inspired one masterpiece--Heman Melville's Benito Cerano. Now historian Greg Grandin returns to these dramatic events to paint an indelible portrait of a world in the throes of revolution, providing a new transitional history of slavery in the Americas--and capturing the clash of peoples, economies, and faiths that was the New World in the early 1800's." -- Provided by Publisher. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Slave trade |z South America |x History |y 19th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Slave insurrections |z South America |x History |y 19th century. | |
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