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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... thought himself too good to converse with a peacoated New Englander. The West Africans, especially the women, also made Delano uncomfortable, though he couldn't say why. There were nearly thirty females on board, among them older women ...
... thought the rebels saw him that day with how they actually did see him. It was only in the late afternoon, around four o'clock, after his men had returned with the additional food and supplies, that the ploy staged by the West Africans ...
... thoughts or, if they did have an interior self, that it too was subject to their masters' jurisdiction, it too was property, that what you saw on the outside was what there was on the inside. The West Africans used talents their masters ...
... thoughts and emotions to play their roles. Mori in particular, as a Spanish official reviewing the affair later wrote, “was a man of skill who perfectly acted the part of a humble and submissive slave.”9 The man they fooled, Amasa ...
... thought of exclusively in terms of the United States—that America had a providential mission, a manifest destiny, to lead humanity to a new dawn—was actually held by all the New World republics. I began to research the history behind ...