Thieving Three-Fingered Jack : : Transatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw, 1780-2015 / / Frances R. Botkin.
The fugitive slave known as "Three-Fingered Jack" terrorized colonial Jamaica from 1780 until vanquished by Maroons, self-emancipated Afro-Jamaicans bound by treaty to police the island for runaways and rebels. A thief and a killer, Jack was also a freedom fighter who sabotaged the colonia...
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Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2017] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Critical Caribbean Studies
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 5 |
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