Black Rebellion: Five Slave Revolts : 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

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Sep 08, 2015

Number of Pages: 74 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1517268192

ISBN-13: 9781517268190