"In the year 1799, Captain Amasa Delano, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, commanding a large sealer and general trader, lay at anchor with a valuable cargo, in the harbor of St. Maria..." So begins an 1855 story concerning a slave revolt on the Spanish ship San Dominick.
"In the year 1799, Captain Amasa Delano, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, commanding a large sealer and general trader, lay at anchor with a valuable cargo, in the harbor of St. Maria..." So begins an 1855 story concerning a slave revolt on the Spanish ship San Dominick. FTP, name the master of the San Dominick, and you'll also have the title of this Piazza Tale by Herman Melville.
"In the year 1799, Captain Amasa Delano, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, commanding a large sealer and general trader, lay at anchor with a valuable cargo, in the harbor of St. Maria..." So begins an 1855 story concerning a slave revolt on the Spanish ship San Dominick.
{Benito Cereno}