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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