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Informationen zum Autor Vincent Brown is the Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of The Reaper’s Garden , winner of the James A. Rawley Prize, the Louis Gottschalk Prize, and the Merle Curti Award, and of Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War , winner of the Anisfield–Wolf Book Award, the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, the Elsa Goveia Book Prize, the James A. Rawley Prize, and the Harriet Tubman Prize. His documentary Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness , broadcast nationally on PBS, won the John E. O’Connor Film Award and was chosen as Best Documentary at the Hollywood Black Film Festival. Klappentext What did people make of death in the world of Atlantic slavery? Brown asks this question about Jamaica. 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. Zusammenfassung What did people make of death in the world of Atlantic slavery? Brown asks this question about Jamaica. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
