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Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
Sudhir Hazareesingh
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The Times (UK)
Sweeping ... Studded with novelistic vignettes of insurrection, it doubles as a brisk history of Atlantic slavery ... Hazareesingh’s book succeeds on the strength of its remarkable cache of evidence.
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Irish Times (IRE)
Quietly devastating ... A powerful corrective ... Hazareesingh’s painstakingly researched, soberly written narrative takes a broadly thematic approach.
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Financial Times (UK)
[A] rich, powerful and groundbreaking history of defiance and rebellion.
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The New Statesman
Absorbing and often revelatory ... A marvel of historical analysis and research.
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Booklist
A compelling history ... A bracing and necessary historical corrective.
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Positive Kirkus
Wide-ranging ... A much-needed and sure-to-be-influential addition to the literature of African enslavement.
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Rave Publishers Weekly
Stunning ... A remarkable reorientation of the history of the modern world.
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