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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674242081
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.3/62097292 23
LOC classification:
  • HT1096 .B75 2020
  • HT1096 .B75 2020
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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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
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.
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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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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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