Marjoleine Kars is a professor of history at MIT. A noted historian of slavery, she is the author of Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast (The New Press) and Breaking Loose Together. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Read an excerpt from Blood on the River in Lit Hub about the complexities of the 1763 slave rebellion in the Dutch colony of Berbice (present-day Guyana).
