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(0)Tom Zoellner
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
"Impeccably researched and seductively readable...tells the story of Sam Sharpe's revolution manqué, and the subsequent abolition of slavery in Jamaica, in a way that's acutely relevant to the racial unrest of our own time." —Madison Smartt Bell, author of All Souls' Rising
The final uprising of enslaved people in Jamaica started as a peaceful labor strike a few days shy