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Tacky's revolt : the story of an Atlantic slave war

text Tacky's revolt : the story of an Atlantic slave war

Summary
"Tacky's revolt, in modern-day Jamaica, was the largest slave uprising in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic. A strikingly modern guerilla conflict, the revolt inspired both fear of and sympathy toward black lives. Vincent Brown offers a grip... Read more
Contents

Prologue: The path to Rebel's Barricade -- War's empire -- The Jamaica garrison -- Coromantee territory -- Tacky's Revolt -- The Coromantee war -- Routes of reverberation -- Epilogue: The age of slave war.

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viii, 320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2020

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 306.3 BRO in Adult Non-fiction Available

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