Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast

Name: Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
Author: Marjoleine Kars
ISBN: 9781800812291

Marjoleine Kars

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Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast

Marjoleine Kars

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Blood on the River won the 2021 Cundill History Prize and the 2021 Frederick Douglass Prize. 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.

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