Berbice: a slave rebellion that nearly succeeded
Marjoleine Kars discusses a little-known 1763 rebellion by enslaved people in Berbice, in present-day Guyana.
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Historian Marjoleine Kars tells Elinor Evans about a little-known 1763 rebellion by enslaved people in Berbice, in present-day Guyana. Chronicled in her Cundill prize-shortlisted book Blood on the River, it was an event that revises our understanding of the actions of enslaved people at the dawn of the Age of Revolution.
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