In ‘Blood On The River,’ The Berbice Rebellion Foreshadows Later Insurgencies

Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast, by Marjoleine Kars

Marjoleine Kars recounts a tale of oppression, bloodshed, and some triumph in her previously untold account of the 1763-64 slave rebellion in Dutch Berbice, modern day Guyana.

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Marjoleine Kars recounts a tale of oppression, bloodshed, and some triumph in her previously untold account of the 1763-64 slave rebellion in Dutch Berbice, modern day Guyana.