Thieving Three-Fingered Jack : Transatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw, 1780-2015 /

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"Starting in 1780, a fugitive slave, known as "Three-Fingered Jack" or Jack Mansong, terrorized colonial Jamaica for almost two years. An outlaw, thief, and killer, he was also a freedom fighter who sabotaged the colonial machine by preying on traveling planters until his death at the...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Botkin, Frances R. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2017]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Mansong, Jack, > -1781.
Mansong, Jack, > -1781 > Legends.
Mansong, Jack, > -1781 > In literature.
Literature.
Legends.
Jamaican literature.
English literature.
American literature.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Criminals & Outlaws.
HISTORY > Caribbean & West Indies > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
Legendes > Jamaïque.
Litterature anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Litterature jamaïquaine (anglaise) > Histoire et critique.
Legends > Jamaica.
American literature > History and criticism.
English literature > History and criticism.
Jamaican literature > History and criticism.
Jamaica.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Intro; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction: Representing Three-Fingered Jack; 1. Divide and Conquer: Three-Fingered Jack and the Maroons; 2. "Jack Is a MAN": Prose Obis, 1800-1870; 3. Staging Obi: Three-Fingered Jack in London and New York; 4. Being Jack Mansong: Ira Aldridge and Three-Fingered Jack; 5. After Emancipation: Masquerade and Miscegenation; 6. Mansong: No Longer "Nearly Everybody Wite"; Epilogue: "The Baddest Man Around"; Acknowledgments; Notes; Works Cited; Index; About the Author.

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