5/30/2023 0 Comments Tacky's revolt book![]() ![]() In the second half of the eighteenth century, as European imperial conflicts extended their domain, warring African factions fed their captives to the transatlantic slave trade while masters struggled to keep their restive slaves under the yoke. "A sobering read for contemporary audiences in countries engaged in forever wars.It is also a useful reminder that the distinction between victory and defeat, when it comes to insurgencies, is often fleeting: Tacky may have lost his battle, but the enslaved did eventually win the war." ![]() "Not only a story of the insurrection, but 'a martial geography of Atlantic slavery, ' vividly demonstrating how warfare shaped every aspect of bondage.Forty years after Tacky's defeat, new arrivals from Africa were still hearing about the daring rebels who upended the island." ![]() "'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." Winner of the Phillis Wheatley Book Award Rawley Prize in the History of Race Relations Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize ![]()
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