From the acclaimed author of "Fordlandia," the story of a
remarkable slave rebellion that illuminates America's struggle with
slavery and freedom during the Age of Revolution and beyond
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 he thought
were slaves. They weren't. Having earlier seized control of the
vessel and slaughtered most of the crew, they were staging an
elaborate ruse, acting as if they were humble servants. When
Delano, an idealistic, anti-slavery republican, finally realized
the deception, he responded with explosive violence.
Drawing on research on four continents, "The Empire of
Necessity" explores the multiple forces that culminated in this
extraordinary event--an event that already inspired Herman
Melville's masterpiece Benito Cereno. Now historian Greg Grandin,
with the gripping storytelling that was praised in Fordlandia, 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.
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