The analysis starts in West Africa, on the Gold Coast and the Slave Coast. The slaves involved in the rebellion did not leave any records of their own, so analysis of them and their motivations must be extrapolated from existing records and histories made by slave-owners. Brown's thesis is that, beyond just being a local event, it is in fact part of a network of overlapping Atlantic wars: an extension of the warfare in East Africa at the time, a war between black slaves and white slave-owners, a war between different factions of the enslaved, and the Seven Years War. This event is important in Jamaican history, and Prof. This book, newly released, is an academic history of Tacky's Revolt and the Coromantee War, slave uprisings in Jamaica in 1760 - 61. I promised more black history books, so here's one.
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