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 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. But starting around the 1770s, the slave trade underwent a stunning transformation. The Spanish Crown began to liberalize its colonial economy and the floodgates opened. Slavers started importing Africans into the continent any ...
... Spanish word for cripple. François-de-Paule Hippolyte Mordeille didn't mind the nickname. It was the rank he didn't ... America, pouring tons of silty sediment into the estuary, raising sandbars, and rerouting sea lanes. Strong dark ...
... America didn't travel much farther once they crossed the Atlantic. The main slave harbors of the Americas—New ... Spanish America. They had already traveled more than five thousand miles from Bonny to Río de la Plata. They were about to ...
... Spanish America's market revolution, and slaves were the flywheel on which the whole thing turned. For centuries, the Spanish Crown had tried to regulate slavery, along with all other economic activity in the Americas, under a system ...