The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World by Grandin, Greg

The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781250062109)

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The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World by Grandin, Greg

The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World

$21.00
The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World by Grandin, Greg

The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World

$21.00
Format: Paperback
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NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE RECOMMENDED BOOK
WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE

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. In fact, they were performing an elaborate ruse, having risen up earlier and slaughtered most of the crew and officers. When Delano, an idealistic, anti-slavery republican, finally realized the deception-that the men and women he thought were humble slaves were actually running the ship-he rallied his crew to respond with explosive violence.

Drawing on research on four continents, The Empire of Necessity is the untold history of this extraordinary event and its bloody aftermath. Delano's blindness that day has already inspired one masterpiece-Herman Melville's Benito Cereno. Now historian Greg Grandin returns to these dramatic events to paint an indelible portrait of a world in the throes of revolution, providing a new transnational history of slavery in the Americas-and capturing the clash of peoples, economies, and faiths that was the New World in the early 1800s.

Author: Greg Grandin
ISBN-10: 1250062101
ISBN-13: 9781250062109
Publisher: Picador USA
Language: English
Published: 01/13/2015
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.30h x 4.20w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 02/15/2015 pg. 28
By Greg Grandin
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Greg Grandin is the author of The End of the Myth, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and Fordlandia, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His widely acclaimed books also include The Last Colonial Massacre, Kissinger's Shadow, and The Empire of Necessity, which won the Bancroft and Beveridge awards in American history. He is Peter V. and C. Van Woodward Professor of History at Yale University.

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