Brown, Vincent, 1967-

Tacky's revolt : the story of an Atlantic slave war / Vincent Brown. - 2020. - viii, 320 pages : illustrations, maps 25 cm

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"--

9780674737570

2019028499


Slave insurrections--History--Jamaica--18th century.
Slavery--History--Jamaica--18th century.


Great Britain--Colonies--America.

HT1096 / .B75 2020

306.3/62097292