One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, a New England sea captain climbed aboard a distressed Spanish ship carrying scores of West Africans he thought were slaves. They weren't.
Not only does this book recount an amazing story of mutiny, deception, and terror, it is told against the deeply researched backdrop of the vast international slave trade. The masterly description of the "empire of [economic] necessity" won this book by Yale history professor Greg Grandin the Bancroft Prize as the best book of historical writing published in 2014. The story of the mutiny was also the inspiration for Herman Melville's novella "Benito Cereno."
BY POPULAR DEMAND, THIS IS A ZOOM REPEAT OF OUR IN-PERSON DISCUSSION OF GRANDIN'S BOOK ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12.
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