Before dawn on Easter Monday, 1760, a column of enslaved men walks silently down a valley road towards a sleeping fort on Jamaica's north coast. By sunrise, the arms of the parish are in their hands, and the richest colony in the British Empire is at war. What follows is the largest slave rebellion of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic: eighteen months of fighting that sweep from the cane valleys of St Mary to a fortified mountain stronghold in Westmoreland and the limestone wilderness of the interior. Its leaders are extraordinary: Tacky, a driver who may once have been an African war chief; Apongo, a former prince who served in the Royal Navy; Cubah, crowned Queen of Kingston in secret. Against them stand regiments, warships, terrified planters, and the Maroons, free Black fighters bound by treaty to hunt them down. Drawing on planter histories, an overseer's notorious diary and the latest scholarship, this gripping narrative recovers a forgotten war fought by African veterans with courage, strategy and a vision of freedom. It traces the savage reprisals, the laws that followed, and the long echoes that reached Haiti, abolition and emancipation. This is the story the empire tried to bury.