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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: empire of necessity
    sub title: slavery, freedom, and deception in the New World
  name:
    name part: Grandin, Greg
    name part: 1962-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 360 pages, 16 unnumbered unnumbered pages of plates : maps ; 25 cm
  abstract: 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.
  abstract: One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal hunter, climbed aboard a distressed Spanish ship carrying scores of West Africans who appeared to be slaves. They weren't. Having earlier seized control of the vessel and slaughtered most of the crew, they were staging an elaborate ruse. When Delano, an idealistic, anti-slavery republican, finally realized the deception--that the men and women he thought were slaves were actually running the ship--he responded with explosive violence. Drawing on research on four continents, historian Greg Grandin explores the multiple forces that culminated in this extraordinary event--an event that inspired Herman Melville's masterpiece "Benito Cereno". Here, Grandin uses the dramatic happenings of that day to map a new transnational history of slavery in the Americas, capturing the clash of peoples, economies, and faiths that was the New World in the early 1800s.--From publisher description.
  table of 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.
  note: Greg Grandin.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-342) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: s------
  subject:
    topic: Slavery
    geographic: South America
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Slave trade
    geographic: South America
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Slave insurrections
    geographic: South America
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Delano, Amasa
      name part: 1763-1823
  classification: HT1121 .G73 2014
  classification: 306.3/6209809034
  identifier: 0805094539 (hardcover)
  identifier: 9780805094534 (hardcover)
  identifier: 2013014309
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 130429
    record change date: 20151206092138.0
    record identifier: in00003478157
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng