The Reaper's Garden

Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery

Vincent Brown

  • 2009 Co-winner of the Merle Curti Award, Organization of American Historians
  • 2009 James A. Rawley Prize, Organization of American Historians
  • 2008-2009 Louis Gottschalk Prize, sponsored by the Executive Board of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Louis Gottschalk Committee

Contents

List of Illustrations

Prologue: Death, Power, and Atlantic Slavery

1. Worlds of Wealth and Death

2. Last Rites and First Principles

3. Expectations of the Dead

4. Icons, Shamans, and Martyrs

5. The Soul of the British Empire

6. Holy Ghosts and Eternal Salvation

7. Gardens of Remembrance

Epilogue: Regeneration

Appendix

Abbreviations in Notes

Notes

Index

  • Cover: The Reaper's Garden
  • A photo of the author

Vincent Brown is Professor of History and of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University.