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...
| Main Author: | Grandin, Greg, 1962- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Picador,
2015.
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| Edition: | 1st Picador ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.