New PDF release: Thieving Three-Fingered Jack: Transatlantic Tales of a

By Frances R. Botkin

ISBN-10: 0813587387

ISBN-13: 9780813587387

ISBN-10: 0813587395

ISBN-13: 9780813587394

The fugitive slave often called “Three-Fingered Jack” terrorized colonial Jamaica from 1780 till vanquished by way of Maroons, self-emancipated Afro-Jamaicans certain by means of treaty to police the island for runaways and rebels.  A thief and a killer, Jack used to be additionally a freedom fighter who sabotaged the colonial computer till his grisly loss of life at its behest. Narratives approximately his exploits make clear the issues of black uprising and strategies administered through the colonial country, developing an social gathering to contemplate counter-narratives approximately its tools of divide and overcome. For greater than centuries, writers, performers, and storytellers in England, Jamaica, and the USA have “thieved" 3 Fingered Jack's riveting story, defining black organization via and opposed to representations of his resistance.

Frances R. Botkin deals a literary and cultural heritage that explores the endurance of news approximately this black insurgent, his contributions to buildings of black masculinity within the Atlantic global, and his legacies in Jamaican and usa renowned culture.

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