- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: OUP USA; New Ed edition (2 Oct 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0195106563
- ISBN-13: 978-0195106565
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.4 x 2.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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"A riveting drama and a magnificent historical tract."--Booklist
"A riveting account of the rebellion that gave new urgency to the British Anti-Slavery Movement."--Quarterly Black Review
"A riveting account of the rebellion that gave new urgency to the British Anti-Slavery Movement."--Quarterly Black Review
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A remarkable study of one of the most massive slave rebellions in the history of the Western Hemisphere. In 1823 Demerara (now Guyana), 60,000 black slaves rose up against their British masters and then were brutally put down. With gripping narrative, this book explores the conflicts within the society that gave the rebellion life, and the larger historical forces that finally put slavery to an end.
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I received my purchase very quickly and was impressed with the quality of the book and the service. The book was a fascinating read, thanx.
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The topic of African slavery in the Caribbean has produced some very mixed writing - some of it neglecting the truly international dimensions of the subject, and some of it frankly so biased as to be useless for scholarly purposes.
'Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood' is an account by a Yale University professor (her own roots are in Brasil) of an important slave rebelllion which took place in what is now Guyana. It is a strikingly intelligent, well-balanced, scholarly history, but at the same time the author has managed to infuse the narrative with a great deal of passion and imagination in the best possible sense - I mean that she has clearly attempted to put herself in the place of ALL the participants - slave-owners as well as individual slaves and missionaries - and in doing so has created a well-rounded and fascinating work.
The author has also done a fine job of intergrating the story of events in the Caribbean with West African history and with contemporary debates about slavery (and the role of nonconformists in those debates) in England.
The production values of the book are good (especially given the low price); the documentation is helpful, although a few more maps would have been welcome.
My only real complaint is that the author's style is at times marred by annoying academic ticks - too many words in inverted commas for no good reason, too many rather dated references to Foucault et al, a bit too much repetition and spelling-out of the obvious. This is sad, because at other points in the book her writing is memorably good.
With that one reservation, this book is clearly valuable both as a reference work and as a work to be read for its own inherent interest.
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