Talk:Tacky's Revolt

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Latest comment: 10 hours ago by Hilst in topic Requested move 21 March 2024

Dating the Haitian Revolution edit

Haitian Revolution begins 1791, not 1790. It's the second time I've seen this somewhere on wikipedia, not sure where it's coming from. Just revised, but placing this on talk page in case someone might know what source is behind this confusion. Isaaccurtis (talk) 14:05, 6 April 2015 (UTC)Reply

Merger proposal edit

As far as I can see there are both the same event. It appears that Tacky is the more common spelling for the Jamaican rebel and this article has more content. Sligocki (talk) 03:07, 1 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

Done. FreplySpang 04:21, 1 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

tacky edit

It was just like the story of nanny of the marrons she got shot but shot by a english solders while fightng to gain victory for her country. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.27.163.180 (talk) 20:12, 14 October 2010 (UTC)Reply

Cubah edit

I added the section on Cubah at the bottom for now, but I admit it isn't the ideal organisation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pen Lewins (talkcontribs) 15:23, 19 October 2015 (UTC)Reply

I have positioned this section more appropriately, in a chronological order. I have also added the extra citations that were needed to make this a more in-depth, referenced article.Mikesiva (talk) 12:49, 2 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Wager a.k.a. Apongo edit

Vincent Brown points out that the rebellion by Wager, a.k.a. as Apongo, has been largely overlooked. I will be adding bits and pieces from that western revolt during the course of the year.Mikesiva (talk) 12:22, 26 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

Haverhill edit

The text Haverhill by James Jones is fiction, not an actual memoir. It should not be cited as an accurate source of information on the rebels. Rather, it is an imagined dramatization of the accounts offered by Edward Long and Bryan Edwards, two slaveholding historians who wrote the first histories of the rebellion.

Dating Tacky's War edit

The revolt began on the night of April 7 and the early morning of April 8, and lasted through 1760.

Sources edit

Maria Allessandra Bollettino, “Slavery, War, and Britain’s Atlantic Empire: Black Soldiers, Sailors, and Rebels in the Seven Years’ War,” (PhD dissertation, University of Texas, Austin, 2009), 191-256.

Vincent Brown, Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2020).

______ The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008), 129-156.

Trevor Burnard, Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and his Slave in the Anglo-Jamaican World (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004), pp. 170-174.

Michael Craton, Testing the Chains: Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982), 125-139.

Richard Hart, Slaves Who Abolished Slavery: Blacks in Rebellion (Kingston: University of West Indies Press, 2002 [1985]), 130-156.

C. Roy Reynolds, “Tacky and the Great Slave Revolt of 1760,” Jamaica Journal 6 (June 1972): 5-8.

Monica Schuler, “Ethnic Slave Rebellions in the Caribbean and the Guianas,” Journal of Social History 3 (Summer 1970): 374-85.

Requested move 21 March 2024 edit

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover)Hilst [talk] 23:17, 28 March 2024 (UTC)Reply


Tacky's WarTacky's Revolt – "Tacky's Revolt" is a much more WP:COMMONNAME than "Tacky's War" for this event per Ngrams: [1]. The best source (and, I believe, the only book) specifically about this event—Tacky's Revolt (2020) by Vincent Brown—calls it by this name: "Tacky's Revolt" is the standard name for the violent events that began with the attack on Fort Haldane and ended months later with the defeat of Wager and others on the far side of the island. [2]

I considered "Tacky's Rebellion", as it very slightly beats "Tacky's Revolt" in Ngrams, but there are more results from Google Scholar for "Tacky's Revolt": 190 for "Tacky's Revolt", 107 for "Tacky's Rebellion", and just 24 for "Tacky's War".

I also considered the lowercase "Tacky's revolt", but "Tacky's Revolt" is about four times as frequent as "Tacky's revolt" in Ngrams. Malerisch (talk) 20:50, 21 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

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