Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire

by Tom Zoellner

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

"Impeccably researched and seductively readable...tells the story of Sam Sharpe's revolution manqu?, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674271157
• ISBN13: 9780674271159
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.2"