Status
Available
Call number
Collection
Publication
New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
Description
This text explores the 1823 slave rebellion in Demerara (now Guyana) - one of the largest in history. The 60,000 black slaves who rose up against their British masters were brutally put down. The book looks at the conflict which gave the rebellion life and the forces which finally ended slavery.
Call number
History / Costa
Language
ISBN
9780195082982
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