Revolt of the Whip

Author/Contributor(s):	Love, Joseph
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Date:	05/16/2012
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

This is the story of a spectacular naval rebellion in which ordinary Brazilian seamen (mostly black and led by a black sailor) overpowered their officers on Dreadnought-class battleships in 1910, to abolish flogging and secure civic rights; it also tells how the sailors suffered lethal retribution, although flogging would never return.