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The reaper's garden : death and power in the world of Atlantic slavery / Vincent Brown.
Van Pelt Library HQ1073.5.J26 B76 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Vincent, 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Death--Social aspects--Jamaica.
- Death.
- Slavery--Jamaica.
- Slavery.
- Death--Social aspects.
- Jamaica.
- Physical Description:
- x, 340 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- Death, power, and Atlantic slavery
- Worlds of wealth and death
- Last rites and first principles
- Expectations of the dead
- Icons, shamans, and martyrs
- The soul of the British Empire
- Holy ghosts and eternal salvation
- Gardens of remembrance
- Regeneration.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-325) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674024229
- 0674024222
- OCLC:
- 145732944
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