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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... for the unease he had felt toward Cerreño. Delano became fixated on the slave. Mori, he later wrote, “excited my wonder.” Other West Africans, including Mori's father, Babo, were also always around, “always listening.” They INTRODUCTION 3.
... wrote in his memoir, A Narrative of 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 ...
... Cereno it is time for his shave and then has the slave psychologically torture the Spaniard with a straight razor, as Amasa, clueless, watches. Melville wrote Benito Cereno midway between the critical and commercial INTRODUCTION 5.
Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World Greg Grandin. Melville wrote Benito Cereno midway between the critical and commercial failure of 1851's Moby-Dick and the beginning of the American Civil War in 1861, at a moment when it ...
... wrote, “was a man of skill who perfectly acted the part of a humble and submissive slave.”9 The man they fooled, Amasa Delano, was in the Pacific hunting seals, an industry as predatory, bloody, and, for a short time, profitable as ...