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The Empire of Necessity
Greg Grandin
The Empire of Necessity
Greg Grandin
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 weren't. When Delano, an idealistic, anti-slavery republican, finally realized the deception, he responded with explosive violence.
400 pages, includes two 8-page black-&-white photograph sections plus 38 black-&-white photographs &
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | January 13, 2015 |
ISBN13 | 9781250062109 |
Publishers | St Martin's Press |
Pages | 400 |
Dimensions | 139 × 211 × 26 mm · 317 g |