
Berbice: a slave rebellion that nearly succeeded
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What Is the Story of a Berbis?
i wonder if we could perhaps give our listeners a bit of context before the events in your account of er, talking about, when did european colonizers first arrive in this region. Well, europeans firt in looking at what the the dutch and the english do call the wild coast of south america in the early 16 hundreds. And berbis is a riverine colony. It is built along the berbis river. The focus of life in the colony is the river itself. That's how people move up and down the river,. In dug out canoes or in tent boats that were rowed by and ave rowers. But mostly what you see on the
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