Like words, numbers produced during the chaotic and disorienting events were the products of aspiration, fear and rumor".5 As Brown notes, "historical sources are never transparent reflections of what happened, how, and why; nor, in the case of the Jamaican uprisings, are they merely the literary phantasms of the colonists' imaginations".6 Nonetheless -- and even if "Tacky" himself is not fully knowable -- "Tacky's Revolt is forever entangled with their fears and fantasies. Vincent Brown's Tacky's Revolt demonstrates, somewhat ironically, that Tacky was not the most consequential leader of the enormous uprising that shook Jamaica during the Seven Years' War. Empire of Violence: Jamaica and the British Imperial Orderin the long Eighteenth CenturyKathleen Wilson Stony Brook University It is a great pleasure to have the opportunity to participate in a forum on Vincent Brown's remarkable and illuminating study, Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War. [Extracted from the article]