Blood on the River (eBook)

A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast

Marjoleine Kars (Autor)

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2020
The New Press (Verlag)
9781620974605 (ISBN)

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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 NPRA breathtakingly original work of history that uncovers a massive enslaved persons' revolt that almost changed the face of the AmericasNamed 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 Berbicein present-day Guyanalaunched 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 Prizewinning historian Eric Foner calls a gripping narrative that brings to life a forgotten world.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.8.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: 18th century Dutch colonies • 18th century history Berbice • 18th century History Guyana • 18th century social conditions • 2021 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalist • African American • American Revolution • Americas • Atlantic History • Atlantic World • award-winning history • Berbice • Black lives matter • Capitalism • Colonial • common wind • Cundill History Prize • Frederick Douglass Book Prize • Guyana • New World • primary source document • Rebellion • Revolution • Salvery Berbice • slave insurrections Berbice • Slave insurrections Guyana • Slave revolt • slave revolts • Slavery • Slavery Guyana • slave trade • Tupac Amaru
• ISBN-13: 9781620974605 / 9781620974605