Mass Historical Society: The Coromantee War in Jamaica: Charting the Course of an Atlantic Slave Revolt

Date: 

Tuesday, February 7, 2017, 5:15pm to 7:30pm

Location: 

1154 Boylston Street , Boston

Vincent Brown, Harvard UniversityComment: Malick Ghachem, MIT

Drawn from Brown’s current book project, this essay will discuss African diasporic warfare in the Americas. It puts the Jamaican Revolt of 1760-61 in the context of a dramatic series of 17th- and 18th-century revolts and conspiracies that were staged by enslaved Africans from the Gold Coast, known widely as “Coromantees."

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