Queen of Freedom
Defending Jamaica
The thrilling true story of how one woman masterminded slave resistance to British rule in eighteenth-century Jamaica - part of the True Adventures series1720. 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, a…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78269-280-5
- EAN: 9781782692805
- Produktnummer: 34313499
- Verlag: Pushkin Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 128 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'353 KB
- Sonstiges: Ab 9 - 12 J.
Über den Autor
Catherine Johnson, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has written many titles for younger readers with a historical setting. Sawbones, a murder mystery set in eighteenth-century London, won the Young Quills Award for Best Historical Fiction 2015. The Curious Tale of the Lady Caraboo is about a cobbler's daughter from Devon who, in the early nineteenth-century, passed herself off as a Princess from Indonesia. Catherine is half-Jamaican and knows the Blue Mountains well.
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