Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: The Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823. Emilia Viotti Da Costa

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Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: The Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823 Emilia Viotti Da Costa ebook
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On the night of August 17, 1823, the distinctly African sounds of blaring shell-horns and beating drums signalled 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). That evening, nine to twelve thousand slaves surrounded the main houses of about sixty plantations, armed with cutlasses, knives fastened on poles, and guns. They broke down doors, smashed windows, commandeered arms and ammunition, and put their masters and overseers in the stocks. Intent on avoiding a blood bath (over three days of fighting, colonial forces took the lives of more than 255 slaves, while only two or ...

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