Revolutionary Emancipation: Slavery and Abolitionism in the British West Indies

by Claudius K. Fergus

Skillfully weaving an African worldview into the conventional historiography of British abolitionism, Claudius K. Fergus presents new insights into one of the most intriguing and momentous episodes of Atlantic history. In Revolutionary Emancipation, Fergus argues that the 1760 rebellion in Jamaica, Tacky's War--the largest and most destructive rebellion of enslaved peoples in the Americas prior to the Haitian Revolution--provided the rationale...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807149888
• ISBN13: 9780807149881
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"