Category: Book Benito Cereno

The story starts from the depiction of Captain Amasa Delano – a sea captain from Massachusetts. He is skilled enough to be entrusted a big ship with the very valuable cargo on board. We see his ship staying in the St. Maria harbor and the Captain just socializing with his crew, resting before the new…

Benito Cereno: Slavery and Racism First published in Putnam’s Monthly in 1855, Benito Cereno becomes one of Herman Melville’s most famous works. It has resemblances with Amasa Delano’s Narrative of Voyages and Travels, for which it was inspired (Delbanco, 2005). Many critics suggest that it is an allusion to the slave… 1 034 words Don…