Image: Plate 6 Provisional Battalion

Description: Account of an insurrection of the negro slaves in the colony of Demerara, which broke out on the 18th of August, 1823. (Provisional Battalion) Battalion lines up for review. Includes officers on horseback, blacks (slaves), ships, church, municipal building, windmill, dwellings, and dogs.
Title: Plate 6 Provisional Battalion
Credit: Bryant, Joshua (1824) Account of an insurrection of the negro slaves in the colony of Demerara, which broke out on the 18th of August, 1823., Georgetown, Demerara: A. Stevenson at the Guiana Chronicle Office High-res scan courtesy of Brown University archives
Author: Joshua Bryant, Demerara
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