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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... Tryal, painted in English in faded white letters along its bow. He could also see that its deck was full of black ... Tryal for about nine hours, from around seven in the morning to a little after four in the afternoon. Having sent his ...
... Tryal, that Delano realized the depth of the deception. He then readied his men to unleash a god-awful violence.1 Over the years, this remarkable affair—in effect a one-act, nine-hour, full-cast pantomime of the master-slave relation ...
Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World Greg Grandin. Spanish Ship Tryal,” and turned it into what many consider his other masterpiece. Melville uses the ghostly ship itself to set the scene, describing it as if it came not from ...
... Tryal illuminate not antebellum 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 ...
... Tryal rebels, came into Uruguay and Argentina in 1804 than any year previous. By the time Amasa was cruising the Pacific, a “slavers' fever,” as one historian has put it, had taken hold throughout the continent. Each region of America ...