Tacky's Revolt The Story of an Atlantic Slave War |
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| Author:
| Brown, Vincent |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-24208-1 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2020 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $19.95 |
Book Description:
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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 gripping account of the fighting and its reverberations across an interconnected world.
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 gripping account of the fighting and its reverberations across an interconnected world.