Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery

by Vincent Brown

Book Overview

Winner of the Merle Curti Award
Winner of the James A. Rawley Prize
Winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize
Longlisted for the Cundill Prize

"Vincent Brown makes the dead talk. With his deep learning and powerful historical imagination, he calls upon the departed to explain the living. The Reaper's Garden stretches the historical canvas and forces readers to think afresh. It is a major contribution to the history of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674057120
• ISBN13: 9780674057128
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"