Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire

Name: Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire
ISBN: 9780674271159

by Tom Zoellner

National Book · 2020 · Winner

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Harvard University PressOctober 6, 2020History NonfictionISBN 9780674271159

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction	2020	Winner

About This Book

Tom Zoellner reconstructs the 1831 Christmas Rebellion in Jamaica, led by the deacon Sam Sharpe, which mobilized sixty thousand enslaved people in the largest slave revolt in British colonial history. The rebellion hastened abolition across the empire and is largely unknown outside Jamaica. Winner of the NBCC Award for Nonfiction 2020.

About the Author

Tom ZoellnerAmerican

Tom Zoellner (born 1968) is an American author, journalist, and professor of English at Chapman University. Chapman University. He has written nine nonfiction books, including the award-winning Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire (2020, National Book Critics Circle Award winner), Uranium (2009), The Heartless Stone (2006), and Rim to River (2023). Read more →