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“what has cast such a shadow upon you” “The negro.” - Herman Melville
Attribution: Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. “Benito Cereno” (1855), The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 9, eds. Harrison Hayford, Alma A. MacDougall, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). First Amasa Delano, then Benito Cereno.

Categories: Cereno, Benito, Darkness, Slavery

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