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Kars, Marjoleine, author.
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Slave rebellions -- Guyana -- Berbice -- History -- 18th century.
Enslaved persons -- Guyana -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
Berbice -- History -- 18th century.
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Blood on the river :...
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Blood on the river : a chronicle of mutiny and freedom on the Wild Coast / Marjoleine Kars.
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Kars, Marjoleine, author.
New York : The New Press, 2020.
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Slave rebellions -- Guyana -- Berbice -- History -- 18th century.
Enslaved persons -- Guyana -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
Berbice -- History -- 18th century.
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9781620974599 (hardcover) :
1620974592 (hardcover) :
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362 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents:
Rehearsal, 1762 -- Labor camps in the making -- 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.
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"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"--
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306.36209 Ka
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