Tacky S Revolt The Story Of An Atlantic Slave War By Vincent Brown D Vincent brown’s “tacky’s revolt” tells the 18th century story of the various organized rebellions of enslaved akan africans from the gold coast region in west africa, who fought for their freedom against their british colonial masters on the island of jamaica. In the second half of the eighteenth century, as european imperial conflicts extended the domain of capitalist agriculture, warring african factions fed their captives to the transatlantic slave trade while masters struggled continuously to keep their restive slaves under the yoke.
Lecture By Vincent Brown Charting The Course Of An Atlantic Slave War Names: brown, vincent, 1967– author. title: tacky’s revolt : the story of an atlantic slave war vincent brown. description: cambridge, massachusetts : the belknap press of harvard university press, 2020. | includes bibliographical references and index. identifers: lccn 2019028500 | isbn 9780674737570 (alk. paper). Brown’s brilliant analysis reveals how slave rebellions across the americas depended upon experienced combatants captured in african conflicts and then sold to europeans, refuting the canard that slave traders gathered their victims randomly. Professor vincent brown’s most recent book, tacky’s revolt: the story of an atlantic slave war, is – on one level – an original retelling of the prolonged insurrection led and organised by enslaved africans and enslaved people of african descent in jamaica during the early 1760s. “brilliant groundbreaking brown’s profound analysis and revolutionary vision of the age of slave war—from the too often overlooked tacky’s revolt to the better known haitian.
Isrrar Event Dr Vincent Brown Tacky S Revolt The Story Of An Professor vincent brown’s most recent book, tacky’s revolt: the story of an atlantic slave war, is – on one level – an original retelling of the prolonged insurrection led and organised by enslaved africans and enslaved people of african descent in jamaica during the early 1760s. “brilliant groundbreaking brown’s profound analysis and revolutionary vision of the age of slave war—from the too often overlooked tacky’s revolt to the better known haitian. In tacky’s revolt, vincent brown has mapped an innovative history and geography linking power and resistance across africa, america, and europe. he demonstrates that slavery was—is—a state of war. “brilliant…groundbreaking…brown’s profound analysis and revolutionary vision of the age of slave war―from the too often overlooked tacky’s revolt to the better known haitian revolution―gives us an original view of the birth of modern freedom in the new world.”. Wager, also known by his african name, apongo, was a leader of the largest slave rebellion in the eighteenth century british empire. but long before taking his part in the great jamaican insurrection of 1760–1761, commonly called tacky’s revolt, he had been on a remarkable odyssey.
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