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Author Brown, Vincent, 1967- author.

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

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020.
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Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2046518~S1
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 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  306.3620972 BRO    AVAILABLE
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Description viii, 320 pages : illustrations, maps 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-308) and index.
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.
Subject Slave insurrections -- Jamaica -- History -- 18th century.
Slavery -- Jamaica -- History -- 18th century.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- America.
ISBN 9780674737570 (cloth)
0674737571 (cloth)
Standard No. 2019028499
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