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Revolution by Fire: New York's Afro-Irish Uprising of 1741, a Graphic Novel

Revolution by Fire: New York's Afro-Irish Uprising of 1741, a Graphic Novel

Rediker, Marcus
Lester, David
Lester, David

Paperback

Colonial Period (1600-1775)General Graphic NovelsGeneral Political Science

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 0807012556
ISBN13: 9780807012550
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: Nov 12 2024
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Based on the little known real life Slave Insurrection of 1741, this book imagines outlaw fugitive John Gwin and an eclectic crew of renegades as they attempt to disrupt and overthrow the colonial social order

Rebel fugitive John Gwin was previously introduced in Under the Banner of King Death and this graphic novel continues his adventures. Revolution by Fire is a hypothetical look at the inner workings of the so called New York Conspiracy or Slave Rebellion of 1741, following the figures who were considered the real-life masterminds of the plot.

Featuring an eclectic crew of African-American, Irish, and mixed race Hispanic sailors, soldiers, and renegades, Gwin and his band are determined to capture New York City in their own names and fight the higher class wigs and ruffles wearing white people. Unfortunately for the conspirators, suspicions about an uprising were already in the minds of the Governor and his fellow elites, and the events that followed change the course of everyone's lives forever.

Based on the chapter titled Outcasts of the Nations of the Earth in Rediker's and Peter Linebaugh's The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, the book provides a fly-on-the-wall view of a historical event reimagined, highlighting cooperation among races and classes that transcends the social order of its time--and inspire us today.

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