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Tom Zoellner
Tom Zoellner is the author of eight non-fiction books, including the best-selling, "The National Road: Dispatches from a Changing America" and "Island on Fire: The Revolt that Ended Slavery in the British Empire," and works as a professor at Chapman University and Dartmouth College. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Harper’s, The American Scholar, The Oxford American, Time, The New Republic, Foreign Policy, Men’s Health, Slate, Scientific American, Audubon, Sierra, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Texas Observer, Departures, The Wall Street Journal and many other publications. Zoellner is a fifth-generation Arizonan and a former staff writer for The Arizona Republic and the San Francisco Chronicle. He serves as the politics editor of The Los Angeles Review of Books and has been the recipient of fellowships and residencies from The Lannan Foundation, the Corporation of Yaddo, the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation.
In "The National Road", America is a vast and daunting prospect, and Zoellner thirsts for more. Longing for a kind of national cultural citizenship, the author knows that absorbing even the barest fraction of a country's everyday majesty, and tribulation, is the work of a lifeti
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For five horrific weeks in 1831 – 1832, Jamaica was convulsed by an uprising of its enslaved people. What started as a peaceful labor strike quickly turned into a full-blown revolt, leaving hundreds of plantations in smoking ruins. By the time British put down the rebels, more than a thousand Jamaicans lay dead from on-the-spot executions and extrajudicial murder.
While the rebels lost their military gamble, their sacrifice accelerated the larger struggle for freedom in the British Empire. The daring and suffering of the Jamaicans galvanized public opinion, resulting in the decisive turn against slavery. For centuries cruel bondage had fed Britain’s lust for sugar. Within two years of the rebellion, slavery was abolished.
Island on Fire is the dramatic day-by-day account of this transformative uprising. A skillful storyteller, Tom Zoellner goes back to primary sources to tell the story of the men and women who tasted liberty for a few brief weeks. He memorably evokes the sights and sounds of the Caribbean in the 1830s; provides the first full portrait of its e