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050 00 $aHQ1073.5.J26$bB76 2008
082 00 $a306.9086/912097292$222
100 1 $aBrown, Vincent,$d1967-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007043780
245 14 $aThe reaper's garden :$bdeath and power in the world of Atlantic slavery /$cVincent Brown.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Press,$c2008.
300 $ax, 340 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [271]-325) and index.
505 00 $tPrologue: Death, Power, and Atlantic Slavery -- $g1.$tWorlds of Wealth and Death -- $g2.$tLast Rites and First Principles -- $g3.$tExpectations of the Dead -- $g4.$tIcons, Shamans, and Martyrs -- $g5.$tThe Soul of the British Empire -- $g6.$tHoly Ghosts and Eternal Salvation -- $g7.$tGardens of Remembrance -- $tEpilogue: Regeneration.
520 1 $a"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." "In this story of a world in flux, Brown show that death was as generative as it was destructive. From the eighteenth-century zenith of British colonial slavery to its demise in the 1830s, the Grim Reaper cultivated essential aspects of social life in Jamaica - belonging and status, dreams for the future, and commemorations of the past. Surveying a haunted landscape, Brown unfolds the letters of anxious colonists, listens in on wakes, eulogies, and solemn incantations, peers into crypts and coffins, and finds the very spirit of human struggle in slavery. Masters and enslaved, fortune seekers and spiritual healers, rebels and rulers, all summoned the dead to further their desires and ambitions. In this turbulent transatlantic world, Brown argues, "mortuary politics" played a consequential role in determining the course of history."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aDeath$xSocial aspects$zJamaica.
650 0 $aSlavery$zJamaica.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111720
852 00 $bglx$hHQ1073.5.J26$iB76 2008