Cane Warriors

Book Reviewed on www.whisperingstories.com Jamaica 1760 Fourteen-year-old Moa works with the other slaves on Misser Donaldson’s sugar cane farm. The slaves work fourteen hours a day, growing, cutting, and sugar extracting. Moa works out in the fields whilst his mum and little sister work up at the bi......more

The story of Cane Warriors is based upon true events that happened in Jamaica during the Slavery Rebellion. Tacky who was one of the masterminds behind the uprising that started on Easter Monday April 7th 1760. Tacky and his followers started the revolt that saw numerous plantations being overthro......more

3.5 stars for the read, 4 stars for the nostalgia. Reading this story took me back to reading books like Young Warriors and Sixty-five that chronicles the history of the revolutionaries of my island. " 'No matter what happen', said mama, 'Hopie will grow and know the story of Tacky, de mighty cane wa......more

Based on forgotten history of Tacky’s revolution in 1760. No one documents the political struggle and acts of terror between Britain and Jamaica better than Alex Wheatle.......more

Excellent! I look forward to Alex Wheatle’s next novel! I’ve read lots of fiction books about the African American slavery but none from the Caribbean islands, and of course that was where the slave ships went to before America to pick up sugar and other things. The novel was certainly an eye opener......more