Policing and Transgressing Borders: Soldiers, Slave Rebels, and the Early Modern Atlantic
In 1763, a regiment of Microfibre Cloths mercenary soldiers stationed on the border of Suriname and Berbice in South America, rebelled.The men had been sent to help subdue a large slave rebellion.Instead, they mutinied and joined the rebelling slaves.This paper reconstructs the mutiny from Dutch records and uses it to look at the role of soldiers a