By William Burdett

William Burdett’s The Life and Exploits of Three-Finger’d Jack (1801), tells the story of Jack Mansong, an African who was captured, taken to Jamaica and forced into slavery. Jack escaped from the sugar plantation where he was forced to do slave labour by the British and ran to the mountains of the island. There he led a guerrilla group of around sixty rebels who fought, during the 1780s, for freedom that was not attained until well over fifty years after. Jack Mansong is one of the unsung heroes of Jamaica.