Benito Cereno
In 1799, while harbored in the island of St. Maria near Chile, Captain Amasa Delano, Massachusetts-born skipper of the Bachelor's Delight, spots an odd vessel and decides to investigate. Upon approaching the ship, Delano notices that it is in very bad condition, that the figurehead has been covered up as though for repairs, and that the boat is being manned erratically. A closer look only increases the oddness: the majority of people on the boat, which is called the San Dominick, are black.
Delano boards the San Dominick to find abundant disarray. The whites and blacks mill together aimlessly, and there is only the slightest hint of order. Four "grizzled" elderly black men, perched at each of the four corners of the deck, watch over the throng while picking oakum. Also, six black men sit together on the stairwell leading to the poop and sharpen hatchets. Perturbed by the appearance of things, Delano seeks out the captain of the San Dominick, the pale and distracted Benito Cereno.......
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