The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
- ISBN-10
- 0805094539
- ISBN-13
- 9780805094534
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 360
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-01-14
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Greg Grandin
Description
Documents an extraordinary early nineteenth-century event that inspired Herman Melville's "Beneto Cereno," tracing the cultural, economic, and religious clash that occurred aboard a distressed Spanish ship of West African pirates.
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