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Pirates or Freedom Fighters?

Posted April 21st, 2015 at 10:29 am (UTC-4)
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This week’s American Stories features the second part of Herman Melville’s story, “Benito Cereno.” We learned in the first part of the story that the ship Melville called the San Dominick was carrying slaves from Chile to Peru in 1799. This was part of the slave trade that took place in the Spanish colonial empire. […]

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