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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... London, and privateers were raiding merchant ships at will, even in the distant South Pacific. Now, though, hollow cheeks and frantic eyes confirmed that the misery was real, turning Delano's fears into “feelings of pity.” Amasa Delano ...
... London, 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 ...
... London. Madrid also hoped to stimulate the economy and thereby generate more revenue to fight the many fronts in its seemingly never-ending wars with one empire or another. So starting with the American Revolution, Spain responded to ...
... London and sided with Paris. Now, the city's poor could casually mention the guillotine and still sound royalist. Some Spanish officials blamed the cities' problems on French privateers, whose crews combined the worst of sailor ...
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