Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast

Title: Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast Author: Marjoleine Kars ISBN: 9781620977804 Publisher: The New Press Published: 2022 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher American History 1559482 Publisher Description: The winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize and the 2021 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, Blood on the River also won two of the highest honors for works of history, capturing both the Frederick Douglass Prize and the Cundill History Prize in 2021. A book with profound relevance for our own time, Blood on the River "fundamentally alters what we know about revolutionary change" according to Cundill Prize juror and NYU history professor Jennifer Morgan. Nearly two hundred sixty years ago, on Sunday, February 27, 1763, thousands of slaves in the Dutch colony of B