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: The age of slave war.
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.
