The Empire of Necessity

Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World

Cover Art for 9780805094534, The Empire of Necessity by Greg Grandin
ISBN: 9780805094534
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: 14 January, 2014
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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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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