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

Over the past several decades, works such as Richard B. Sheridan's Doctors and Slaves: A Medical and Demographic History of Slavery in the British West Indies, 1680-1834 (Cambridge, UK, 1985) and Joseph C. Miller's Way of Death Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade (Madison, WI,...

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Published in:Journal of the early Republic 2009, Vol.29 (2), p.336-339
Main Author: Browne, Randy M.
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Blacks
Collective memory
Creativity
Missionaries
Physicians
Political activism
Politics
Reviews
Slavery
Society
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Summary:Over the past several decades, works such as Richard B. Sheridan's Doctors and Slaves: A Medical and Demographic History of Slavery in the British West Indies, 1680-1834 (Cambridge, UK, 1985) and Joseph C. Miller's Way of Death Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade (Madison, WI, 1988) have done much to document and explain these staggering mortality rates. Exploring a broad range of themes, including burial rites, inheritance, missionary activity and conversion of blacks to Christianity, slave resistance, the antislavery movement in England, the judicial treatment of enslaved peoples, and efforts to construct a collective memory of slavery, Brown concludes that "death in Jamaica destroyed individuals, while generating a society" (127).
ISSN:0275-1275
1553-0620
1553-0620
DOI:10.1353/jer.0.0078