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Blood on the river : a chronicle of mutiny and freedom on the Wild Coast / Marjoleine Kars.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kars, Marjoleine, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slave rebellions--Guyana--Berbice--History--18th century.
- Slave rebellions.
- Berbice--History--18th century.
- Berbice.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (385 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London : The New Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "The story of a massive eighteenth-century slave rebellion in the Dutch colony of Berbice (now Guyana) which had been all but forgotten. Historian Marjoleine Kars recovers a riveting tale from the archives, including rare first-person accounts from African-born slaves"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Rehearsal
- Labor camps
- Overthrow
- Governing
- The Long Atlantic Reach
- Expanding the revolution
- Stalemate
- Rebellious soldiers
- Palace revolution
- Turn of the tide
- The Battle for the Berbice
- Wild sang & little glory
- Outsourcing the war
- Justice sideways
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Fredrick Douglass Prize. Winner, 2021.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1-62097-460-6
- OCLC:
- 1162605765
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