Blood on the River : a Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
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Call Number: 306.3 Ka
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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Rehearsal -- Labor camps -- Overthrow -- Governing -- The Long Atlantic Reach -- Expanding the revolution -- Stalemate -- Rebellious soldiers -- Palace revolution -- Turn of the tide -- The Battle for the Berbice -- Wild sang & little glory -- Outsourcing the war -- Justice sideways -- Epilogue.
"The story of a massive eighteenth-century slave rebellion in the Dutch colony of Berbice (now Guyana) which had been all but forgotten. Historian Marjoleine Kars recovers a riveting tale from the archives, including rare first-person accounts from African-born slaves"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York : The New Press, [2020]
Year Published: 2020
Description: 362 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781620974599
1620974592
SUBJECTS
Slave insurrections -- Berbice -- History -- 18th century.
Enslaved people -- Guyana -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
Berbice -- History -- 18th century.