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Blood on the River - A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast (Hardcover, Main)
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Blood on the River - A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast (Hardcover, Main)
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Winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize Winner of the 2021
Frederick Douglass Prize 'A richly detailed account of a gripping
human story' Washington Post '[An] epic history ... a sweeping,
thoughtful narrative' Los Angeles Times On Sunday 27 February,
1763, thousands of slaves in the Dutch colony of Berbice - in
present-day Guyana - launched a massive rebellion which came
amazingly close to succeeding. Surrounded by jungle and savannah,
the revolutionaries and their enslavers struck and parried for an
entire year. In the end, the Dutch prevailed because of one
advantage: their access to soldiers and supplies. Blood on the
River is the explosive story of this little-known revolution, one
that almost changed the face of the Americas. Drawing on 900
interrogation transcripts collected by the Dutch when the Berbice
rebellion finally collapsed, which were subsequently buried in
Dutch archives, historian Marjoleine Kars reconstructs an
extraordinarily rich day-by-day account of this pivotal event.
Blood on the River provides a rare, in-depth 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 of the story
of freedom in the New World.
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