Blood on the river : a chronicle of mutiny and freedom on the wild coast /
Marjoleine Kars.
- New York : The New P., 2020.
- 362 pages : ill., maps, photos.
(The untold story of the Berbice slave rebellion blood on the river a chronicle of mutiny and freedom on the wild coast) on cover
Includes bibliographical references, and index.
Rehearsal -- Labor camps -- Overthrow -- Governing -- The Long Atlantic Reach -- Expanding the revolution -- Stalemate -- Rebellious soldiers -- Palace revolution -- Turn of the tide -- The Battle for the Berbice -- Wild sang & little glory -- Outsourcing the war -- Justice sideways -- Epilogue.
"The story of a massive eighteenth-century slave rebellion in the Dutch colony of Berbice (now Guyana) which had been all but forgotten. Historian Marjoleine Kars recovers a riveting tale from the archives, including rare first-person accounts from African-born slaves"--