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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... Royal African Company instructed its agent in nearby Cape Coast Castle, on the Gold Coast west of Bonny, to survey the African merchants from whom they brought their slaves: did they come to the coast in “small parties” or “caravans ...
... with chattel slavery. Press gangs roamed the wharves and piers of port cities throughout the British realm on the hunt for men to fill the ships of the Royal Navy, looking nothing so much as like the slave HAWKS ABROAD 19.
Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World Greg Grandin. Royal Navy, looking nothing so much as like the slave gangs that stalked the coasts and rivers of Africa.10 In Liverpool, the vanguard of merchant reaction, savage fellows ...
... royal Spanish standard, ready their counterfeit papers, and prepare to tell port authorities that the ship they were sailing was owned by a local Spaniard. A “sham sale” was how New Englanders described the practice. And thus with the ...
... royal permission to convert his plunder into salable commodities. So shortly after arriving in Montevideo that January of 1804 with the Neptune in tow, he sat down and wrote a letter to the Spanish viceroy, Joaquín del Pino, whose ...