Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War

Name: Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
ISBN: 9780674737570

by Vincent Brown

Anisfield-Wolf Book · 2021 · Winner

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Belknap PressApril 28, 2020Nonfiction HistoryISBN 9780674737570

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award – Nonfiction	2021	Winner	“Tacky's Revolt by Vincent Brown won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction in 2021.”

About This Book

An account of the slave rebellion led by Tacky in Jamaica in 1760—one of the largest and most significant in the history of the British empire—placed in the context of the broader geopolitical struggles of the mid-eighteenth century Atlantic world. Vincent Brown uses innovative cartography alongside historical narrative to reconstruct the war's causes, events, and global reverberations. Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction.

About the Author

Vincent BrownAmerican

Vincent Brown is an American historian and professor at Harvard University, where he holds the Charles Warren Professorship in American History. Born in the 1960s, he received his degrees from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Duke University. He has written widely on the history of slavery, the Caribbean, and Atlantic history. Read more →