Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: The Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823
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Published Date :
01 Jan 1997
Published By
OUP USA
ISBN : 9780195106565
Category : Central & South America
Format : Paperback
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The night of August 17, 1823 saw the start of one of the most massive slave rebellions in the history of the Western Hemisphere, the uprising in the British colony of Demerara (now Guyana), in which nearly twelve thousand slaves took up arms against their masters. In Crowns of Glory, Emilia Viotti daCosta tells the riveting story of this pivotal moment in the history of slavery. Studying the complaints brought by slaves to the office of the Protector of Slaves, she reconstructs the experience of slavery through the eyes of the Demerara slaves themselves.