#  Brown, Vincent - The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery 

 





September 01, 2011

 

 

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**Vincent Brown**. Harvard University Press. September 2010. [Publisher's Link](http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674057128) What did people make of death in the world of Atlantic slavery? In *The Reaper’s Garden*, **Vincent Brown** asks this question about Jamaica, the staggeringly profitable hub of the British Empire in America—and a human catastrophe. Popularly known as the grave of the Europeans, it was just as deadly for Africans and their descendants. Yet among the survivors, the dead remained both a vital presence and a social force.

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  **[Vincent Brown](http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/vincent-brown)** **Charles Warren Professor of American History**  
**Professor of African and African American Studies**  
  
Vincent Brown, Charles Warren Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies, is a multi-media historian with a keen interest in the political implications of cultural practice. He directs the History Design Studio and teaches courses in Atlantic history, African diaspora studies, and the history of slavery. Brown is the author of *The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery* (Harvard University Press, 2008) and producer of an audiovisual documentary about the anthropologist Melville J. Herskovits broadcast on the PBS series Independent Lens. He is currently writing a book about African diasporic warfare in the Americas. [Read More...](http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/vincent-brown) 

  





 

 

 



 

 

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