Tacky's revolt : the story of an Atlantic slave war / Vincent Brown.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: viii, 320 pages : illustrations, maps 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780674737570
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Tacky's revoltDDC classification:
  • 306.3/62097292 23
LOC classification:
  • HT1096 .B75 2020
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: Servile war and the militants' bequest.
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.
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PRINT PRINT المكتبة الرئيسية الطابق الثالث أ HT1096.B75 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available NSAMARA 2021-05-25 0001000013182

Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-308) and index.

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: Servile war and the militants' bequest.

"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.

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