Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood

The night of August 17, 1823 saw the start of one of the most massive slave rebellions in the history of the Western Hemisphere, the uprising in the British colony of Demerara (now Guyana), in which nearly twelve thousand slaves took up arms against their masters. In Crowns of Glory , Emilia Viotti da Costa tells the riveting story of this pivotal moment in the history of slavery.