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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... Liverpool corsair, that he developed his “tenacious hatred” of the British.6 Liverpool had joined the fight against republicanism with exceptional fervor. When news arrived in early 1793 that the French had executed their king, Louis ...
... Liverpool's slavers, planters, and shippers financed a large mercenary fleet made up of about sixty-seven privateers, trim, fast ships mounted with twenty guns or better to take the fight against Jacobinism to the sea. For a time ...
... Liverpool, the vanguard of merchant reaction, savage fellows patrolled the streets, often led by a “dissipated, but determined-looking officer, in a very seedy uniform and shabby hat.” Men would flee and children scream upon catching ...
... Liverpool, Boston, New York, and trading ports in Africa and Brazil. This was what historians call Spanish America's market revolution, and slaves were the flywheel on which the whole thing turned. For centuries, the Spanish Crown had ...
... Liverpool prizes in tow, the Active and the Mercury, carrying 441 Africans. And just last December, Mordeille had brought in another prize, the Ariadne, a 130-ton snow-rigged British brig, with its hold full of Africans, gunpowder, and ...