Tacky's Revolt
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Tacky's Revolt was a slave rebellion in the British colony of Jamaica which lasted from 7 April 1760 to 1761. Spearheaded by self-emancipated Coromantee people, the rebels were led by a Fante royal na
A French illustration of the revolt made in 1800
Frontier Estate
Trinity plantation, one of the first to be captured by the rebels
Turntable Cannon at Fort Haldane
Coromantee
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Coromantee, Coromantin, Coromanti, Kormantine, Kromantyn or Kromanti is an English-language term for enslaved people from the Akan ethnic group, taken from the Gold Coast region in modern-day Ghana.
Tacky's Revolt
…Rebellion and Tacky's War) was a slave rebellion in the British colony of Jamaica which lasted from 7 April 1760 to 1761. Spearheaded by self-emancipated Coromantee people, the rebels were led by a Fante royal named Tacky. It was the most significant slave rebellion in the West Indies between the 1733 slave insurrection…
Leonard Parkinson, Maroon leader, Jamaica, 1796. Engraving by Abraham Raimbach.
Historic representation of Fort Amsterdam (Fort Kormantin) in Ghana
An engraving by William Blake illustrating "A negro hung by his ribs from a gallows", from Captain John Stedman's Narrative of a Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, 1792
Slaves force the retreat of European soldiers led by Lt. Brady in Guyana.