Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire

by Tom Zoellner

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

"Tom Zoellner tells the story of Sam Sharpe's revolution manqu?, and the subsequent abolition of slavery in Jamaica, in a way that's acutely relevant to the racial unrest of our own time. Island on Fire is impeccably researched and seductively readable."--Madison Smartt Bell, author of All Souls' Rising

From a New York Times bestselling author,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674984307
• ISBN13: 9780674984301
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 8.5"