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Blood on the River - A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast (Paperback)
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Blood on the River - A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast (Paperback)
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List price R566
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Discovery Miles 4 840
You Save R82 (14%)
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The winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize and the 2021 Frederick
Douglass Book Prize Named one of the best books of the year by NPR,
Blood on the River also won two of the highest honors for works of
history, capturing both the Frederick Douglass Prize and the
Cundill History Prize in 2021. A book with profound relevance for
our own time, Blood on the River "fundamentally alters what we know
about revolutionary change" according to Cundill Prize juror and
NYU history professor Jennifer Morgan. Nearly two hundred sixty
years ago, on Sunday, February 27, 1763, thousands of slaves in the
Dutch colony of Berbice--in present-day Guyana--launched a
rebellion that came amazingly close to succeeding. Blood on the
River is the explosive story of this little-known revolution, one
that almost changed the face of the Americas. Michael Ignatieff,
chair of the Cundill Prize jury, declared that Blood on the River
"tells a story so dramatic, so compelling that no reader will be
able to put the book down." Drawing on nine hundred interrogation
transcripts collected by the Dutch when the rebellion collapsed,
and which were subsequently buried in Dutch archives, historian
Marjoleine Kars has constructed what Pulitzer Prize-winning
historian Eric Foner calls "a gripping narrative that brings to
life a forgotten world."
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