Tackys Revolt

Tacky's Revolt was the major 1760 enslaved uprising in Jamaica led by a Koromantee/Gold Coast figure remembered as Tacky. It matters for Haitian history because it was part of the Atlantic Caribbean insurgent memory circulating before 1791: Boukman Dutty was reportedly trafficked from Jamaica to Saint-Domingue, making Tacky's Revolt a plausible political precedent he carried with him. Planters' lasting fear of Gold Coast captives after the revolt shaped how they read and misread the Haitian Revolution.