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.
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Picador,
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Publisher Address: | New York : |
Publication Dates: |
2015. ©2014 |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Edition: | First Picador edition. |
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Summary: |
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. |
Carrier Form: | xiv, 360 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: |
9781250062109 (paperback) : 1250062101 (paperback) 9780805094534 (hardcover) 0805094539 (hardcover) 9781429943178 (electronic book) 1429943173 (electronic book) |
Index Number: | HT1121 |
CLC: | K770.8 |
Call Number: | K770.8/G753 |
Contents: |
Fast fish. Hawks abroad ; More liberty ; A lion without a crown ; Body and soul ; A conspiracy of lifting and throwing ; Interlude : I never could look at death without a shudder -- A loose fish. A suitable guide to bliss ; The levelling system ; South Sea dreams ; Interlude : black will always have something melancholy in it -- The new extreme. The skin trade ; Falling man ; The crossing ; Diamonds on the soles of their feet ; Interlude : heaven's sense -- Further. Killing seals ; Isolatos ; A terrific sovereignty ; Slavery has grades ; Interlude : a merry repast -- If God wills. Night of power ; The story of the San Juan ; Mohammed's cursed sect ; Interlude : abominable, contemptible Hayti -- Who ain't a slave? Desperation ; Deception ; Retribution ; Conviction ; Interlude : the machinery of civilization -- General average. Lima, or the law of general average ; The lucky one ; Undistributed ; Epilogue : Herman Melville's America. |