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Blood on the River - A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast (Hardcover)
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Blood on the River - A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast (Hardcover)
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Winner of the Cundill History Prize Winner of the Frederick
Douglass Book Prize Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR
A breathtakingly original work of history that uncovers a massive
enslaved persons' revolt that almost changed the face of the
Americas 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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