The Empire of Necessity : Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
Documents an early nineteenth-century event that inspired Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno," tracing the cultural, economic, and religious clash that occurred aboard a distressed Spanish ship of West African pirates
eBook, English, 2014
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Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2014
History
1 online resource (xiv, 360 pages) : illustrations
9781429943178, 1429943173
886577324