
The Cargo Rebellion tells a true story of mutiny on the high seas in which four hundred indentured Chinese men overthrew their captor, the Connecticut businessman and slave trader Leslie Bryson, taking a stand against an exploitative global enterprise. The...

What happens in history is different from how people remember it, which happens in things like books, movies, and songs. The story at the heart of this book--the Robert Bowne rebellion--is visual and visceral and begs to be told out-loud, and that's how the...