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“Zoellner’s vigorous, fast-paced account brings to life a varied gallery of participants.” Wall Street Journal
“Impressively researched, this is a valuable addition to Jamaica’s documented history.” Southern California News Group
“Resurrecting this important historical episode, Zoellner moves nimbly through the research, giving an exciting account of the events as well as the significant consequences.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Zoellner makes deft use of primary sources and illustrates how the atmosphere of energetic political reform and events like Sharpe’s rebellion converged to end slavery in the ‘agricultural prison camp’ of Jamaica and in the British Empire at large.” New Yorker
“Narrator Mirron Willis relates the history with talent and skill.” AudioFile
“A highly readable but carefully documented account of the greatest of all British slave rebellions, the miseries that led to it, and the momentous changes it wrought.” Adam Hochschild, New York Times bestselling author
“Acutely relevant to the racial unrest of our own time. Island on Fire is impeccably researched and seductively readable.” Madison Smartt Bell, author of All Souls’ Rising