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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... Montevideo's harbor. The Spaniards in his multinational crew had trouble saying his name, so they called him Captain Manco—manco being the Spanish word for cripple. François-de-Paule Hippolyte Mordeille didn't mind the nickname. It was ...
... Montevideo on the north. It was littered with sunken hulls and still didn't have a wharf or a pier, but its harbor was deeper than the shallow riverbed off of Buenos Aires and thus preferable for loading and unloading cargo. Mordeille ...
... Montevideo. The British, including the officers, had been placed in a hold, not the one that contained the Africans but a smaller one, below the Neptune's quarterdeck. Until about the 1770s, most Africans who made the Middle Passage to ...
Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World Greg Grandin. MORE LIBERTY Montevideo was a city of roof dwellers, much like how Nathaniel Philbrick describes Nantucket in the 1800s. Its houses were tightly packed on a small spit of ...
... Montevideo was smaller than its sprawling sister city, Buenos Aires, which with its cowboys and muleteers still wasn't even sure it was a port town. The waterfront in Buenos Aires was a muddy slope to a shallow river, filled with ...