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Podcast: New Books in Caribbean Studies
Episode: Vince Brown, Caribbean Vectors (EF, JP)
Description: The largest slave uprising in the 18th century British Caribbean was also a node of the global conflict called the Seven Yearâs War, though it isnât usually thought of that way. In the first few days of the quarantine and our current geopolitical and epidemiological shitshow, John and Elizabeth spoke with Vincent Brown, who recently published Tackyâs Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War (Harvard UP, 2019), centered on a group of enslaved West Africans, known under the term âCoromanteesâ who were the chief protagonists in this war.Tracing the vectors of this war within the C...