Berbice: a slave rebellion that nearly succeeded
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🗓️ 16 October 2021
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| 1:17.1 | On the 27th of February 1763, |
| 1:21.0 | thousands of enslaved people in the Dutch colony of Babis, |
| 1:24.6 | now Guyana, rose up in rebellion. |
| 1:29.2 | It was a revolt that came surprisingly close to succeeding, and the revolutionaries remained in contention for power in |
| 1:34.5 | the colony for an entire year. Historian Marielina Kars has drawn on forgotten Dutch archives |
| 1:41.1 | for her 2020 book, Blood on the River, which pieces the rebellion together |
| 1:45.9 | through the stories of the people involved. The book has recently been shortlisted for the |
| 1:51.1 | 2021 Kundle History Prize, of which History Extra is a media partner. Putting the questions to |
| 1:57.7 | Marielina was our acting digital editor, Eleanor Evans. Thank you so much, |
| 2:04.2 | Mariana, for joining us. And your book considers a little-known rebellion by enslaved people |
| 2:09.7 | in the Dutch colony along the Beirbeast River that is in today's Guyana in South America. |
| 2:15.4 | It started in 1763. And I wanted if we could start by hearing from |
| 2:20.3 | you a little on what brought you to this little known history. Absolutely. I had finished a book |
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