{"id":176428616,"date":"2013-11-30T00:19:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T06:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/?p=176428616"},"modified":"2013-11-30T00:19:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T06:19:47","slug":"history-slave-revolt-in-jamaica-1760-1761","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/2013\/11\/30\/history-slave-revolt-in-jamaica-1760-1761\/","title":{"rendered":"HISTORY: Slave Revolt In Jamaica, 1760-1761"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cSLAVE REVOLT <\/span><\/h1>\n

IN JAMAICA, 1760-1761: <\/span><\/h1>\n

A CARTOGRAPHIC NARRATIVE\u201d<\/span><\/h1>\n

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by\u00a0Jessica Marie Johnson<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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Vincent Brown (Harvard University) unveils a new resource for studying slavery and slave revolt in Jamaica:<\/span><\/p>\n

via\u00a0Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-1761<\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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This animated thematic map narrates the spatial history of the greatest slave insurrection in the eighteenth century British Empire. \u00a0To teachers and researchers, the presentation offers a carefully curated archive of key documentary evidence. \u00a0To all viewers, the map suggests an argument about the strategies of the rebels and the tactics of counterinsurgency, about the importance of the landscape to the course of the uprising, and about the difficulty of representing such events cartographically with available sources. \u00a0Although this cartographic narration cannot be taken as an exhaustive database\u2014for instance, it does not examine major themes such as belonging and affiliation among the insurgents or the larger imperial context and interconnected Atlantic world\u2014 the map offers an illuminating interpretation of the military campaign\u2019s spatial dynamics\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2026.Mapping the great Jamaican insurrection of 1760-61 allows us to see how the island\u2019s topography shaped the course of the revolt, how the rebellion included at least three major uprisings, and how its suppression required the sequenced collaboration of several distinct elements of British military power. \u00a0From the cartographic evidence, it appears that the insurrection was in fact a well-planned affair that posed a genuine strategic threat, checked ultimately by an effective counterinsurgency. \u00a0Yet if the map draws a clearer picture of the extent and contours of the insurrection, it cannot convey the ambition, hope, desperation, shock, dread, alarm, cruelty, bloodlust, and sheer mayhem of the experience. \u00a0These are matters left to the historical imagination of viewers and readers.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

More on Tacky\u2019s Revolt (via\u00a0Project Description<\/span><\/a>):<\/span><\/p>\n

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In 1760, some fifteen hundred enslaved black men and women\u2014 perhaps fewer but probably many more\u2014 took advantage of Britain\u2019s Seven Year\u2019s War against France and Spain, to stage a massive uprising in Jamaica, which began on April 7 in the windward parish of St. Mary\u2019s and continued in the leeward parishes until October of the next year. \u00a0Over the course of eighteen months the rebels killed as many as sixty whites and destroyed many thousands of pounds worth of property. \u00a0During the suppression of the revolt over five hundred black men and women were killed in battle, executed, or committed suicide. \u00a0Another 500 were transported from the island for life. \u00a0Colonists valued the total cost to the island at nearly a quarter of a million pounds. \u201cWhether we consider the extent and secrecy of its plan, the multitude of the conspirators, and the difficulty of opposing its eruptions in such a variety of places at once,\u201d wrote planter-historian Edward Long in his 1774\u00a0History of Jamaica<\/i>, this revolt was \u201cmore formidable than any hitherto known in the West Indies.\u201d[1]<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Explore the site\u00a0here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Image Credit: \u201cSoulevement des Negres \u00e0 la Jamaique en 1759, \u201d as shown in David Francois\u2019 \u201cHistoire d\u2019Angleterre\u201d (Paris, 1800), Vol. 3 .<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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AFRICAN DIASPORA, PH.D. September 2, 2013\u00a0\u00b7 \u201cSLAVE REVOLT IN JAMAICA, 1760-1761: A CARTOGRAPHIC NARRATIVE\u201d     by\u00a0Jessica Marie Johnson\u00a0 Vincent Brown (Harvard University) unveils a new resource for studying slavery and slave revolt in Jamaica: via\u00a0Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-1761: This animated thematic map narrates the spatial history of the greatest slave insurrection in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[6],"tags":[4,12,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176428616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176428616"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176428616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176428654,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176428616\/revisions\/176428654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176428616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176428616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176428616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}