tacky's revolt the story of an atlantic slave war

While at Ballards Valley, as Tacky and his followers were celebrating their success, one enslaved person slipped away and sounded the alarm. Tacky and his troops commandeered nearly four barrels of gunpowder and 40 firearms and then overran the Heywood Hall plantation.īy this point more, than 400 people had joined Tacky and his followers. Hundreds of rebels made their way to the storeroom at Fort Haldane where they killed the storekeeper and captured and defended the town of Port Maria from British colonial forces.

Slaves also rose up on the Esher estate owned by wealthy politician William Beckford and joined in the rebellion. The owner of the Trinity plantation, Zachary Bayly, however, managed to escape. Tacky and his followers began the rebellion by killing white masters and overseers on the Frontier and Trinity plantations. Tacky’s War began on Easter Monday, April 7, 1760. They did not know that the success of the Maroons in that earlier conflict would eventually help bring about the downfall of their rebellion. That rebellion was led by Queen Nanny of the Maroons. The rebels were inspired by the First Maroon War that also occurred in Jamaica, from 1728 to 1740. The goal of the rebellion was to take control of the British island colony and create a separate Black independent nation. This war was one of the most significant slave rebellions in the Caribbean during the 18th century before the Haitian Revolution, which began three decades later. The rebellion was led by Tacky (also known as Takyi), who was from the Fante ethnic group. Other ethnic groups from Ghana including the Akyem, Nzema, Fanti, and Ashanti took part in the rebellion. Mary Parish, Jamaica, against the British from 1760 to 1761. Tacky’s War, also known as Tacky’s Rebellion, was an uprising among Jamaica Akan enslaved people from Ghana that occurred in St.

Tacky's revolt the story of an atlantic slave war