Delano, Amasa

Delano, Amasa ăm´əsə dĕl´ənō [key], 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 HermanMelville), are recorded in hisNarrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, Comprising Three Voyages Round the World(1817).

See J. B. Connolly,Master Mariner(1943); G. Grandin,The Empire of Necessity(2014).

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