Tacky's Revolt : : The Story of an Atlantic Slave War /

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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Brown, Vincent,
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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Table of Contents:
  • 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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