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Benito Cereno

Herman Melville

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IN THE year 1799, Captain Amasa Delano, of Duxbury, in Massachusetts, commanding a large sealer and general trader, lay at anchor, with a valuable cargo, in the harbour of St. Maria- a small, desert, uninhabited island towards the southern extremity of the long coast of Chili. There he had touched for water...Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a contents page linked to the chapter headings for easy navigation. The Adobe eBook has bookmarks at chapter headings and is printable up to two full copies per year. Both versions are text searchable.

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Subjects

  • Slave trade
  • Fiction
  • open_syllabus_project
  • Slaves, fiction
  • Fiction, sea stories
  • American fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Enslaved persons, fiction
  • Children's fiction
  • Readers
  • Universities and colleges
  • Departments
  • History
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