The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2014. 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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Year
- 2014
- ISBN-13
- 9781780744117
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- Slavery and slave tradeAge of RevolutionMaritime history
Awards
- Bancroft PrizeWon(2015)
- Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionShortlistedMajor(2014)
Other awarded books from Greg Grandin
- The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
- America, América: A New History of the New World
- Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
- Fordlândia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
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