Review: A rebel slave died a hero and was forgotten; a dramatic history revives his legend
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, winner of the Times Book Prize in history, spent a decade on “They Were Her Property,” about women slave owners.Although the story is known in Guyana, Kars writes that formal European histories of the rebellion frame the story using the journal and letters of the local Dutch governor, Wolphert Simon van Hoogenheim; one 19th-century historian deemed the slave testimonies useless, because “the declarations of blacks can be but little trusted.
Marjoleine Kars, the author of “Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast.”the banks of the Berbice and Canje rivers. Europeans found the jungles daunting and frequently deadly. Many died of fevers, probably yellow fever and malaria, others from “bloody flux” ; those who survived were plagued by mosquitoes, giant ants, piranhas, vampire bats, misery and misfortune.It was not a place the officers of the Dutch West India Co.
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