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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... ship's name, the Tryal, painted in English in faded white letters along its bow. He could also see that its deck was ... ship, he could see that its sails were tattered. What should have been an orderly web of rigging and tackle was a ...
... ships in a single blow. Even the north shore, considered the safest route in and along which Mordeille sailed, was known ... ship's sails and returning on the Neptune. Phillips was trapped. If the objective was to destroy the target, the ...
... ship.”11 Once at sea sailors were subject to rule as feudal as the ancien régime and as brutal as the plantation. They could ... ship's slaves were worth, wholesale, at least 80,000 silver pesos (it's nearly impossible to do a straight ...
... ships, and limited manufacturing. Selected countries or companies were granted the monopoly right to import slaves, and only ... ship's cargo and not whatever it was that was being smuggled.7 By the late 1770s, Spain was under increasing ...