Empire of Necessity
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 w...
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 w...
