Tacky's Revolt : : The Story of an Atlantic Slave War / / Vincent Brown.
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 reverberatio...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2020] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Prologue: The Path to Rebel's Barricade -- 1. War's Empire -- 2. The Jamaica Garrison -- 3. Coromantee Territory -- 4. Tacky's Revolt -- 5. The Coromantee War -- 6. Routes of Reverberation -- Epilogue: The Age of Slave War -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780674242081 9783110690057 |
DOI: | 10.4159/9780674242081?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Vincent Brown. |