Although we do not know much about Apongo's background before enslavement, Brown provides several convincing possibilities. Brown also takes readers down multiple intellectual paths as he offers various backstories for Apongo, or Wager, one of the leaders in the Coromantee uprisings in 1760–61. Furthermore, the enslaved people who took part in slave uprisings came from a variety of military and leadership backgrounds from these same wars that caused their capture. European involvement among African polities caused widespread disarray as entire societies were devastated by wars to capture slaves. Slave uprisings and wars for domination had roots in Africa with the enslaved people at the heart of these violent conflicts. In Chapter 1, Brown takes readers to Africa in an examination of African politics and wars for enslavement. In six chapters, Brown convincingly accomplishes his goals. More specifically, Brown points to Tacky's rebellion, and the larger Coromantee War, in Jamaica as a major military event of the Seven Years' War. This Atlantic history of war brings the interconnectedness of Africa, the colonial Americas, and Europe into sharper focus. Generally, Brown's purpose is to bring Africa into focus as an integral part in the development of European Atlantic empires, and to show the way wars for enslavement stretched throughout the Atlantic region to morph into race war on plantations and wars for imperial dominance. These included "an extension of African wars" that continued in the colonies after the forced migration of enslaved people "a race war" as white and black people came into conflict on plantations an internal conflict among black Jamaicans and "one of the hardest-fought battles" of the Seven Years' War (7). Furthermore, he argues that Tacky's revolt in Jamaica was simultaneously part of four conflicts. In Tacky's Revolt, Vincent Brown asserts that slave revolts were "viewed as war" (5).
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