revolt.axismaps.comSlave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-1761

viewmap A Cartographic Narrative Home Project Sources Acknowledgments Blog -- Map Vincent Brown Principal Investigator and Curator Charles Warren Professor of History and Professor of African and African-American Studies Director, History Design Studio Harvard University brown8@fas.harvard.edu This animated thematic map narrates the spatial history of the greatest slave insurrection in the eighteenth century British Empire. To teachers and researchers, the presentation offers a carefully curated archive of key documentary evidence. To all viewers, the map suggests an argument about the strategies of the rebels and the tactics of counterinsurgency, about the importance of the landscape to the course of the uprising, and about the difficulty of representing such events cartographically with available sources. Although this cartographic narration cannot be taken as an exhaustive database—for instance, it does not examine major themes such as belonging and affiliation among the insurgents or the larger imperial context and interconnected Atlantic world— the map offers an illuminating interpretation of the military campaign’s spatial dynamics. Project Description Project Description In 1760, some fifteen hundred enslaved black men and women— perhaps fewer but probably many more— took advantage of Britain’s Seven Year’s War against France and Spain, to stage a massive uprising in Jamaica, which began on April 7 in the windward parish of St. Mary’s and continued in the leeward parishes until October of the next year... Multi-layered Interactive Map Multi-layered Interactive Map Mapping the great Jamaican insurrection of 1760-61 allows us to see how the island’s topography shaped the course of the revolt, how the rebellion included at least three major uprisings, and how its suppression required the sequenced collaboration of several distinct elements of British military power... Recent Blog Posts Recent Blog Posts " rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to " -- © 2012 Vincent Brown. All rights reserved. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, or otherwise used, except with the prior permission of Vincent Brown. Loading...