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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... Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, published in 1817, still, twelve years after the fact, confusing how he thought the rebels saw him that day with how they actually did see him. It was only in the late ...
... voyages let him leave it in a fine coffin shrouded in black velvet and studded with silver nails. His funeral cortege included: eight gentleman abreast, three hundred boys from the Blue Suit 18 THE EMPIRE OF NECESSITY.
... voyage would spend the rest of their lives. But the West Africans brought into Montevideo by Mordeille on the Neptune were arriving as part of slavery's new extreme, the motor of a market revolution that was remaking Spanish America ...
... voyage across the Atlantic was rough, his men were hungry, and his ships were badly in need of repair. “But what brings me the most sadness and melancholy,” he continued, “is that my work has not benefited the blacks.” The management of ...
... voyage, in 1802, 395 Africans were boarded at Bonny; 355 disembarked in British Guiana. This time, 349 out of an original shipment of about 400 had survived. But they were in a bad state, emaciated, their blue smocks having fallen off ...