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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Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World Greg Grandin. rounding Cape Horn with only a handful of sailors and a ship full of mutinous slaves. He cruised first up and then down the Chilean coast, before running into Delano's ...
Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World Greg Grandin. many meant by freedom was the freedom to buy and sell black people as property.6 To be sure, Spain had been bringing enslaved Africans to the Americas since the early 1500s ...
Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World Greg Grandin. what freedom was could be difficult. Saying what it wasn't, though, was easy: “a very Guinea slave.” The ideal of the free man, then, answerable to his own personal ...
Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World Greg Grandin. ters of their passions, able to defer their desires, for, say, revenge or immediate freedom, and to harness their thoughts and emotions to play their roles. Mori in ...
Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World Greg Grandin. in human affairs. It's this awareness, this dread, that makes Benito Cereno so enduring a story—and Melville such an astute appraiser of slavery's true power and lasting ...