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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... sailors telling their “stories” and sharing their “grievances” in a babel of languages. They spoke in Wolof, Mandinka, Fulani, and Spanish, a rush of words indecipherable in its details but soothing to Delano in its generalities ...
... sailors and a ship full of mutinous slaves. He cruised first up and then down the Chilean coast, before running into Delano's Perseverance. The slaves could have fought or fled. Instead, Babo came up with a plan. The West Africans let ...
... sailor from New England, he carried with him the hopes of his youth. He believed slavery to be a relic of the past, certain to fade away. Yet his actions on the Tryal, the descent of his crew into barbarism, and his behavior in the ...
... sailor's term, “horse market,” to describe the explosive pileup of converging tides, strong enough to scuttle vessels. It's a good metaphor. That's what the people on board the Tryal were caught in, a horse market of crashing historical ...
... sailors preferred 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 ...