Black Rebellion: Five Slave Revolts (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781517268190)

The Maroons! it was a word of peril once; and terror spread along the skirts of the blue mountains of Jamaica when some fresh foray of those unconquered guerrillas swept down from the outlying plantations, startled the Assembly from its order, Gen. Williamson from his billiards, and Lord Balcarres from his diplomatic ease, -endangering, according to the official statement, "public credit," "civil rights," and "the prosperity, if not the very existence, of the country," until they were "persuaded to make peace" at last

Author: Thomas Wentworth Higginson
ISBN-10: 1517268192
ISBN-13: 9781517268190
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 09/08/2015
Pages: 74
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.24lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.15d