Brown, Vincent
Reaper's Garden
- ISBN 13:
- 9780674057128
- author:
- Brown, Vincent
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Harvard University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2010
- Pages:
- 368
- Dimensions:
- 23.2 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm
- Genre:
- Black & Asian studies
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery By Vincent Brown Harvard University Press, 2010 In the world of Atlantic slavery, death was not just an end, but a transformative force that shaped social life. This book explores how people in Jamaica, a hub of the British Empire in America, understood and interacted with death from the eighteenth century to its demise in the 1830s. Through a rich tapestry of letters, wakes, eulogies, and other rituals, Vincent Brown reveals how death was both generative and destructive. He shows how the dead were summoned by masters and enslaved alike to further their desires and ambitions, and how this practice influenced belonging, status, dreams for the future, and commemorations of the past. By examining the complex relationships between life and death in Jamaica during this period, Brown sheds new light on the history of Atlantic slavery.
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