Queen of Freedom [electronic resource] : Defending Jamaica
Johnson, Catherine2020
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The thrilling true story of how one woman masterminded slave resistance to British rule in eighteenth-century Jamaica - part of the True Adventures series1720. Blue Mountains, windward Jamaica. In the sweltering heat Captain Shettlewood leads a troop of British soldiers through the thick trees towards the river. They are hunting slaves who have escaped from the brutal plantations. Their mission: to find them, and kill them.But up ahead, hidden among the rocks above the water, a group of men with cutlasses and muskets wait patiently for the instructions of their leader. Queen Nanny is a 'wise woman' with a reputation for ancient obeah magic, and a guerilla fighter with a genius for organisation. So the battle for Jamaica begins, the First Maroon War, in which the maroons - escaped slaves - will make a final, do-or-die stand against the slavers and soldiers of Empire.
Main title:
Queen of Freedom [electronic resource] : Defending Jamaica / Johnson, Catherine.
Author:
Johnson, Catherine, authorCloud
Imprint:
[S.l.] : Pushkin Children's Books, 2020.
Collation:
1 online resource128 p.
Series:
True Adventures
Notes:
Electronic book.Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] Pushkin Children's Books 2020 Available via World Wide Web.
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Format: Adobe EPUB3Requires: cloudLibrary (file size: 2.3 MB)
ISBN:
9781782692805
Language:
English
Related title:
Queen of freedom : defending Jamaica
BRN:
3151580