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Zoellner, Tom

Summary: "For five horrific weeks after Christmas in 1831, Jamaica was convulsed by an uprising of its enslaved people. What started as a peaceful labor strike quickly turned into a full-blown revolt, leaving hundreds of plantation houses smoking ruins. By the time British troops had put down the rebels, more than a thousand Jamaicans lay dead from summary executions and extrajudicial murder. While the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 326.8 ZOE

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