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Queen of Freedom

Catherine Johnson

From Shelf: 2022 Empathy Collection

The thrilling true story of how one woman masterminded slave resistance to British rule in eighteenth-century Jamaica - part of the True Adventures series.

1720. 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.

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
128
Publisher:
Pushkin Children's Books
ISBN:
9781782692799
Published Date:
6/8/2020
Dimensions:
198mm x 129mm
Category:
History & the past: general interest (Children's / Teenage)

RRP: £7.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9781782692799


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