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Tacky's revolt : the story of an Atlantic slave war
"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 reverb...
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | Tacky's revolt : the story of an Atlantic slave war / Vincent Brown |
| Publié : |
Cambridge, Massachusetts [etc.] :
The Belknap press of Harvard university press
, 2020 |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (VIII-320 p.) |
| Sujets : |
- 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