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050 0 0 _aHT1121
_b.G73 2013
082 0 0 _a306.362 GRA
100 1 _aGrandin, Greg
_d, 1962-
245 1 4 _aThe Empire of Necessity
_b: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
_c/ Greg Grandin
250 _aFirst Edition.
260 _aNew York
_b: Metropolitan Books
_c, 2014
300 _a360 p.
_b: illus.
_c; 25 cm
500 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index
520 _aDocuments an 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.
600 1 0 _aDelano, Amasa
_d, 1763 - 1823
650 0 _aSlavery
_z--South America
_x--History
_y--19th century
650 0 _aSlave trade
_z--South America
_x--History
_y--19th century
650 0 _aSlave insurrections
_z--South America
_x--History
_y--19th century
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