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

Vincent Brown

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.

HistoryHistory · medium confidenceHistory81 signalsLlm Classifier: History -> HistoryKeyword Classifier: American History -> American HistoryTopic Classifier: Slavery & Emancipation -> American HistorySlavery & EmancipationReconstructionAmerican Civil War

Award History

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AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Cundill History PrizeMajor2009LonglistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    • Jamaica82%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    The dead in Jamaica’s Atlantic-slavery world remained a vital presence and a social force among survivors.

    Model confidence 72%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    60 / 100 academic

    Trade / academic crossover

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 78%.