tacky's revolt the story of an atlantic slave war

It’s a major accomplishment.”īrown casts Tacky’s Revolt, a multi-pronged wave of uprising in Jamaica in 1760-1761, in its varied particulars, ranging from the forests of what is now Ghana to the mountains of Jamaica to the shipping routes along the Atlantic. “Not only did Brown do heroic work in his original scholarship, but he escaped the insular world of academese and presented it in an accessible and appealing form. “This is truly a remarkable and important event in the history of the world, largely unknown (I confess that I was ignorant of it),” writes Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards juror Steven Pinker. Brown’s book is a groundbreaking investigation into the roots, combatants, cartography and reverberations of the largest slave revolt in the 18th Century British Atlantic World. Such themes find voice in Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War, the most recent book from the Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. How could my work not think about those themes?” “And I grew up in a military town that was part of that, that was fundamental to the expansion of U.S.

“I was born in 1967, at the height of the Vietnam War, and I think that I look back on those 50 or so years and it looks like permanent, endless warfare,” Brown told Harvard Magazine. He is the son of Professor Willie Brown, a biology professor and author at the University of California, San Diego, and Manuelita Brown, a mathematics teacher who now works as a sculptor. Scholar Vincent Brown traces a lifelong interest in warfare to growing up in a family steeped in military service and to his childhood in San Diego, “one of the largest military garrisons in the history of the world, and one of the most potent,” as he told Harvard Magazine.

Tacky's revolt the story of an atlantic slave war