Delano, Amasa
Delano, Amasa
(ăm`əsə dĕl`ənō), 1763–1823, American sea captain, b. Duxbury, Mass. At 15, he served as a soldier in the American Revolution and later as a privateersman. His experiences on the sea in the days of New England's supremacy, including the slave rebellion aboard a slave ship commanded by Benito Cerreño (later used as the basis of a novella by Herman MelvilleMelville, Herman,1819–91, American author, b. New York City, considered one of the great American writers and a major figure in world literature. Early Life and Works
..... Click the link for more information. ), are recorded in his Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, Comprising Three Voyages Round the World (1817).
Bibliography
See J. B. Connolly, Master Mariner (1943); G. Grandin, The Empire of Necessity (2014).