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Queen of Freedom
Catherine Johnson
其他書名
Defending Jamaica
出版Pushkin Press, 2020-08-06
主題Juvenile Nonfiction / History / GeneralJuvenile Nonfiction / Adventure & Adventurers
ISBN17826928009781782692805
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=wS_wDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.