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On this day in Jamaican History: The Tacky Rebellion
jamarch
11 years ago
Image from Tacky: Freedom fighter and folk hero - Written by Mary Dixon. Edited by Inez M Grant. Illustrations by Lascelles Lee
Image from Tacky: Freedom fighter and folk hero – Written by Mary Dixon. Edited by Inez M Grant. Illustrations by Lascelles Lee

On this day in Jamaican History – On April 8, 1760, in St. Mary the Tacky Rebellion began. It was an uprising of black African slaves and was the most significant slave rebellion in the Caribbean until the Haitian Revolution in 1790. The leader of the rebellion, Tacky (Takyi), had been a Coromantin (a Fanti coastal fort town in the Central region of present-day Ghana) chief before being enslaved. – http://bit.ly/i5Gr8Q