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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... Latin America, the United States, and the Rise ofthe New Imperialism The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War The Blood ofGuatemala: A History ofRace and Nation THE EMPIRE OF NECESSITY THE EMPIRE OF NECESSITY GREG GRANDIN.
... colonial Virginia, but the paradox can be applied to all of the Americas, North and South, the Atlantic to the Pacific, as the history leading up to and including events on the Tryal reveals. What was true for Richmond was no less so ...
... colonial economy and the floodgates opened. Slavers started importing Africans into the continent any which way they could, working with privateers to unload them along empty beaches and in dark coves, sailing them up rivers to inland ...
... colonies in 1794 only to restore it eight years later. Napoleon's 1802 announcement of its restoration was terse: “Slavery shall be maintained”; the slave trade “shall take place.” In any case, the 20 THE EMPIRE OF NECESSITY.
... mercantilism. Spain prohibited its colonies from trading with one another, banned foreign ships from entering American ports, prohibited individual merchants from owning their own fleets of cargo ships, and 24 THE EMPIRE OF NECESSITY.