Benito Cereno

Benito Cereno, short story by Herman Melville, published in Putnam’s Monthly Magazine in 1855 and later included in the collection The Piazza Tales (1856). It is a chilling story narrated by Amasa Delano, the captain of a seal-hunting ship who encounters off the coast of Chile a slave ship whose human cargo has revolted. Although it takes Delano some time to unravel the situation, eventually he saves the title character, who is the captain of...