Tacky’s War: The Key Facts Behind Jamaica’s Largest Slave Uprising

In April 1760, a coordinated uprising broke out in eastern Jamaica, led by an enslaved African known as Tacky. Far from a spontaneous revolt, what followed was a sustained and strategic multi-layered conflict that spread across the island and lasted well into 1761. Long remembered as Tacky’s Rebellion, historians now recognise it as something far […]