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Tacky's revolt : the story of an Atlantic slave war / Vincent Brown.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Vincent, 1967- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slave rebellions--Jamaica--History--18th century.
- Slave rebellions.
- Slavery--Jamaica--History--18th century.
- Slavery.
- History.
- Great Britain--Colonies--America.
- Great Britain.
- Colonies.
- America.
- British colonies.
- Jamaica.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020.
- 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 gripping account of the fighting and its reverberations across an interconnected world"-- Provided by publisher.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 2021
- Other Format:
- Online version: Brown, Vincent, 1967- Tacky's revolt
- ISBN:
- 9780674737570
- 0674737571
- OCLC:
- 1112789265
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