Cane Warriors

Alex Wheatle

Oct 2020 · RB Media · Narrated by Noel Arthur

About this audiobook

NOBODY FREE TILL EVERYBODY FREE.

Moa is fourteen. The only life he has ever known is toiling on the Frontier sugarcane plantation
for endless hot days, fearing the vicious whips of the overseers. Then one night he learns of an
uprising, led by the charismatic Tacky. Moa is to be a cane warrior, and fight for the freedom
of all the enslaved people in the nearby plantations. But before they can escape, Moa and his
friend Keverton must face their first great task: to kill their overseer, Misser Donaldson. Time
is ticking as the day of the uprising approaches . . .

Irresistible, gripping, and unforgettable, CANE WARRIORS follows the true story of Tacky’s
War in Jamaica, 1760.

About the author

Alex Wheatle was born in Brixton in 1963. He founded the Crucial Rocker sound system, performing his own songs using the name, Yardman Irie. He spent a short time in prison where he began to write poems and lyrics. After he got out, he became known as the Brixton Bard. He is the author of Brixton Rock, East of Acre Lane, The Seven Sisters, Checkers (written with Mark Parham), Island Songs, The Dirty South, Breton Brown, and Liccle Bit. His 2016 book, Crongton Knights won the 2016 Guardian children's fiction prize for his YA novel.