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Slaves Remastered: An Untold Story of Rebellion, Revolution, and Restoration in the Atlantic World, by Marjoleine Kars

Marjoleine Kars, Associate Professor
University of Maryland, Baltimore County

This event is co-sponsored with The Center for Early Cultures, The History Department, and the Humanities Commons

Marjoleine Kars is finishing a book about a massive and nearly successful slave rebellion in a in Dutch colony (now the Republic of Guyana) in South America tentatively titled Slaves Remastered: An Untold Story of Rebellion, Revolution, and Restoration in the Atlantic World (under contract with The New Press).

An article about this work, “Dodging Rebellion: Politics and Gender in the Berbice Slave Uprising of 1763,” was published in the American Historical Review in Feb. 2016.  It won the 2016-17 article prize awarded by FEEGI (Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction), the 2017 Carol Gold Award from the Coordinating Council for Women in History, the 2017 Kimberly Hanger Prize of the Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association, and the 2017 Vanderwood Prize from the Conference on Latin American History.