Thieving Three-Fingered Jack: Transatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw, 1780-2015 by Frances R. Botkin

Critical Caribbean Studies

Thieving Three-Fingered Jack: Transatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw, 1780-2015

Frances R. Botkin

240 pages paperback 2017

4 editions

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The fugitive slave known as "Three-Fingered Jack" terrorized colonial Jamaica from 1780 until vanquished by Maroons, self-emancipated Afro-Jamaicans bound by treaty to police the island for runaways and rebels. A thief and a killer, Jack was also ...

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