Title The Reaper's Garden Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery / Vincent Brown

Edition First Harvard University Press paperback edition Published Cambridge, MA ; London : Harvard University Press, 2010 ©2008

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Description 1 online resource 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-325) and index Notes English Subject Death -- Social aspects -- Jamaica Death -- Social aspects Jamaica Form Electronic book ISBN 9780674058941 0674058941

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