Who is Don Benito Cereno from Great Short Works of Herman Melville and what is their importance? Great_Short_Works_of_Herman_Melville English & Literature Don Benito Cereno | Great Short Works of Herman Melville

Benito Cereno is the captain of San Dominick, an old Spanish galleon. In the story, Cereno is transporting several guests along the west coast of South America, when Cereno is captured during a slave revolt aboard ship. He is forced to watch helplessly while his officers and senior men are murdered, and is later saved when they come upon another ship, whose captain, a man by the name of Delano sees his plight and recaptures the ship from the slaves. In the end, Cereno is a broken man.