Dimensions
156 x 234 x 32mm
One morning in 1805, Captain Amasa Delano, a seal hunter and abolitionist, climbed aboard 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 their own masters. When Delano realized the deception, he responded with awful violence.
Epic in scale, and based on never-before-consulted records on four continents, The Empire of Necessity is a gripping account of obsessive mania, imperial exploitation, and lost ideals, told against the sweeping backdrop of the Age of Revolution which created our modern world.
