Greg Grandin

The Empire of Necessity (eBook, ePUB)

The Untold History of a Slave Rebellion in the Age of Liberty

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Produktbeschreibung

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2014 Discover the story of a real-life Captain Ahab of the slave trade, in a landmark book by one of today's most original and highly acclaimed historians One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, seal hunter and abolitionist Captain Amasa Delano climbed aboard the Tryal, a distressed Spanish slaver. He spent all day on the ship, sharing food and water, yet failed to see that the slaves, having slaughtered most of the crew, were now their own masters. Later, when Delano realized the deception, he chased the ship down, responding with barbaric violence. Drawing on never-before-consulted records on four continents, Greg Grandin follows this group of courageous slaves and their persecutor from the horrors of the Middle Passage to their explosive confrontation. The Empire of Necessity is a gripping account of obsessive mania, imperial exploitation, and lost ideals, capturing the epic clash of peoples, economies, and faiths that was shaping the so-called New World and the Age of Revolution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780744117
• Artikelnr.: 41005685

Autorenporträt

Greg Grandin is author of Fordlandia, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A Professor of History at New York University, he has written for the New Statesman, New York Times, and others, and has been a Guggenheim Fellow. He lives in New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction 1??
Part I: Fast Fish
? 1. Hawks Abroad 13
? 2. More Liberty 22
? 3. A Lion without a Crown 31
? 4. Body and Soul 38
? 5. A Conspiracy of Lifting and Throwing 49
Interlude: I Never Could Look at Death without a Shudder 54??
Part II: A Loose Fish
? 6. A Suitable Guide to Bliss 61
? 7. The Levelling System 72
? 8. South Sea Dreams 78??
Interlude: Black Will Always Have Something Melancholy in It 91??
Part III: The New Extreme
? 9. The Skin Trade 97
? 10. Falling Man 106
? 11. The Crossing 112
? 12. Diamonds on the Soles of Their Feet 117?
Interlude: Heaven's Sense 123??
Part IV: Further
? 13. Killing Seals 131
? 14. Isolatos 142
? 15. A Terrific Sovereignty 150
? 16. Slavery Has Grades 160??
Interlude: A Merry Repast 166??
Part V: If God Wills
? 17. Night of Power 171
? 18. The Story of the San Juan 182
? 19. Mohammed's Cursed Sect 186??
Interlude: Abominable, Contemptible Hayti 197??
Part VI: Who Aint a Slave?
? 20. Desperation 203
? 21. Deception 211
? 22. Retribution 219
? 23. Conviction 224??
Interlude: The Machinery of Civilization 234??
Part VII: General Average
? 24. Lima, or The Law of General Average 239
? 25. The Lucky One 249
? 26. Undistributed 254??
Epilogue: Herman Melville's America 265?
A Note on Sources and Other Matters 275?
Archives Consulted 293?
Notes 297?
Acknowledgments 343?
Illustrations Credits 347?
Index 349