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Grandin, Greg, 1962-

Title The empire of necessity : slavery, freedom, and deception in the New World / Greg Grandin.

Publication Info.

New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2014.

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Location	Call No.	Status
Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department	306.362 GRANDIN	Check Shelf
Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction	306.362 GRANDIN	Check Shelf
Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department	306.362 GRA	Check Shelf
Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction	306.362 GRANDIN	Check Shelf
Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction	306.3 GRANDIN	Check Shelf
Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction	306.362 GRA	Check Shelf
New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction	306.36 G76	Check Shelf
Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department	306.362 GRANDIN	Check Shelf
Portland Public Library - Adult Department	306.362 GRA	Check Shelf
West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction	306.362 GRANDIN	Check Shelf

Edition	First edition.
Description	xiv, 360 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Summary	Documents 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.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject	Slavery -- South America -- History -- 19th century.
	Slave rebellions -- South America -- History -- 19th century.
Local Subject	Trafficking in enslaved persons -- South America -- History -- 19th century.
Subject	Slave trade -- South America -- History -- 19th century.
	Delano, Amasa, 1763-1823.
ISBN	9780805094534 hardback
	0805094539 hardback
	9781429943178 (ebk.)

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