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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... crew and passengers, along with the slave trader who was taking them to Lima. They then ordered Benito Cerreño, the vessel's owner and captain, to sail them to Senegal. Cerreño stalled, afraid of rounding Cape Horn with only a handful ...
... crew being executed—for disdain, as if the aristocratic-looking Spaniard, dressed in a velvet jacket and loosely fitting black pants, thought himself too good to converse with a peacoated New Englander. The West Africans, especially the ...
... crew into barbarism, and his behavior in the months that followed, spoke of a future to come. Herman Melville spent nearly his whole writing career considering the problem of freedom and slavery. Yet he most often did so elliptically ...
... 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 the rank he didn't like. Mordeille was a seafaring ...
... crew had taken near the Bight of Biafra.2 Copper-bottomed, teak-framed, three-masted, and three-decked, the 343ton Neptune had a sharp-angled cutwater topped with an ornately carved prow: a lion without a crown, as the Spaniards would ...