tacky's revolt the story of an atlantic slave war

Rawley Prize in the History of Race RelationsWinner of the Phillis Wheatley Book AwardFinalist for the Cundill Prize A gripping account of the largest slave revolt in the eighteenthcentury British Atlantic world, an uprising that laid bare the interconnectedness of Europe, Africa, and America, shook the foundations of empire, and reshaped ideas of race and popular belonging. Winner of the AnisfieldWolf Book AwardWinner of the James A. It was also part of a more extended borderless conflict that spread from Africa to the Americas and across the Their uprising?which became known as Tacky’s Revolt?featured a style of fighting increasingly familiar today: scattered militias opposing great powers, with fighters hard to distinguish from noncombatants. In this contentious atmosphere, a movement of enslaved West Africans in Jamaica (then called Coromantees) organized to throw off that yoke by violence. In the second half of the eighteenth century, as European imperial conflicts extended the domain of capitalist agriculture, warring African factions fed their captives to the transatlantic slave trade while masters struggled continuously to keep their restive slaves under the yoke.

Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War

Tacky's revolt the story of an atlantic slave war