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Blood on the River

Blood on the River

A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast

by Marjoleine Kars
Paperback
Publication Date: 28/02/2023

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A breathtakingly original history of the Berbice Slave Rebellion, the event that almost changed the face of the Americas.

THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BERBICE SLAVE REBELLION

Winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize

Winner of the 2021 Frederick Douglass Prize

'A gripping tale about the human need for freedom ... spellbinding' - NPR

'A masterpiece ... a story for the ages' - Elizabeth Fenn, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Encounters at the Heart of the World

In February 1763, thousands of slaves in the Dutch colony of Berbice - in present-day Guyana - launched a massive rebellion - and very nearly succeeded. For an entire year, they fought their enslavers, dreaming of establishing a free state, what would have been the first Black republic. Instead, they vanished from history.

Blood on the River is the explosive story of this forgotten revolution, an event that almost changed the face of the Americas. Historian Marjoleine Kars draws on long-buried Dutch interrogation transcripts to reconstruct a rich day-by-day account of this extraordinary event, providing a rare look at the political vision of enslaved people at the dawn of the Age of Revolution. An astonishing original work of history, Blood on the River will change our understanding of revolutions, slavery and the story of freedom in the New World.

ISBN:
9781800812284
9781800812284
Category:
History of the Americas
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
28-02-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
Profile Books Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
384
Dimensions (mm):
198x128x32mm
Weight:
0.32kg
Marjoleine Kars

Marjoleine Kars teaches history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

A noted historian of slavery, she is also the author of Breaking Loose Together: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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