The empire of necessity: slavery, freedom, and deception in the New World
Social issues, History, General non-fiction
Human-narrated audio
Summary
Author of Fordlandia (DB 69852) investigates American captain Amasa Delano's 1805 discovery of a distressed Spanish ship in the South Pacific that had been taken over by its African slaves--an event that inspired Herman Melville's novella Benito Cereno. Discusses the slave trade in the Americas and its horrors. Violence. 2014
Title Details
ISBN
9780805094534
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Copyright Date
2014
Book number
4393908
Audio details for CELA title
Narrator
Jack Fox
Duration
10 hours 37 minutes 23 seconds
Audio producer
American Printing House for the Blind