The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New WorldHenry Holt and Company, 2014年1月14日 - 384 頁 From the acclaimed author of Fordlandia, the story of a remarkable slave rebellion that illuminates America's struggle with slavery and freedom during the Age of Revolution and beyond |
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... America—History—19th century. 2. Slave trade—South America— History—19th century. 3. Slave insurrections—South America—History—19th century. 4. Delano, Amasa, 1763–1823. I. Title. HT1121.G73 2013 306.3'6209809034—dc23 2013014309 Henry ...
... American literature, is Herman Melville's Benito Cereno. Whether he was impressed with the slaves' wile or intrigued by Amasa Delano's naïveté, Melville took chapter 18 of Amasa Delano's long memoir, “Particulars of the Capture of the ...
... America as it headed to war but an earlier moment, the Age of Revolution, or the Age of Liberty. The revolt took place in late 1804, nearly exactly midway between the American Revolution and the Spanish American wars for independence ...
... America has its own history of slavery, with its own rhythms and high points. But taking the Western Hemisphere as a whole, what was happening in South America in the early 1800s was part of a New World explosion of chattel bondage that ...
... American innocents abroad, oblivious to the consequences of their actions, even as they drive themselves and those around them to ruin. Delano, though, is a more compelling figure. Born in the great upswell of Christian optimism that ...