Vincent Brown

Tacky's revolt, in modern-day Jamaica, was the largest slave uprising in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic. A strikingly modern guerilla conflict, the revolt inspired both fear of and sympathy toward black lives. Vincent Brown offers a gripping account of the fighting and its reverberations across an interconnected world.

The Story of an Atlantic Slave War

Tacky's Revolt

Joseph Beuys

W. E. B. Du Bois

Laura Poitras

Margaret Pearce

Patricio Dávila

Teddy Cruz

Philippe Rekacewicz

Joshua Akers

Josh Begley

Lawrence Mogel

Lucas Larochelle

Visualizing, Mapping and Performing Resistance

Diagrams of Power

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 Atlantic slavery.”—Ira Berlin From the author of Tacky’s Revolt, a landmark study of life and death in colonial Jamaica at the zenith of the British slave empire. 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. In this compelling and evocative story of a world in flux, Brown shows that death was as generative as it was destructive. From the eighteenth-century zenith of British colonial slavery to its demise in the 1830s, the Grim Reaper cultivated essential aspects of social life in Jamaica—belonging and status, dreams for the future, and commemorations of the past. Surveying a haunted landscape, Brown unfolds the letters of anxious colonists; listens in on wakes, eulogies, and solemn incantations; peers into crypts and coffins, and finds the very spirit of human struggle in slavery. Masters and enslaved, fortune seekers and spiritual healers, rebels and rulers, all summoned the dead to further their desires and ambitions. In this turbulent transatlantic world, Brown argues, “mortuary politics” played a consequential role in determining the course of history. Insightful and powerfully affecting, The Reaper’s Garden promises to enrich our understanding of the ways that death shaped political life in the world of Atlantic slavery and beyond.

Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery

The Reaper’s Garden

Maxine Brown

The Blessed Man is a compilation of writings that depict the author's love of God. He takes us on a spiritual journey from Genesis to Revelation while incorporating his own life application to the Word of God. We encourage you to follow his journey to become one of God's vessels. In his own words, he takes you from a wilderness journey to a Godly life. He affirms his faith over and over and delves into the Word with conviction and praise for the Holy Spirit in his life. The author was a noticeably quiet and unassuming spirit and, most of all, a man of God. He was an avid reader, listener, and writer. He would display a very pensive expression when he was in the Word. As you read this book of faith, just imagine a quiet voice speaking to you. Meditate on his words and listen for the heartbeat, as the text rises and engulfs your spirit. While he was as humble as a peasant, he was a confident soul. His confidence in the Word speaks loudly from each page of this book. The writings encompass a wide range of topics such as, "The Relevance of the Tabernacle to My Life," "Heaven is a Prepared Place for a Prepared People," Effective Church Leadership," "Miracles in my Life," and much more. This accounting of the author's transformation is like the metamorphosis of a butterfly. It looks different at each stage of development. At the adult stage, the butterfly transforms into a beautiful insect adorned with stripes of diverse colors. The author's favorite butterfly was the Monarch. Similarly, the author's life changed as he became more familiar with the Word of God. This book is replete with examples of how God transformed him from the wilderness stage to a God-fearing and God loving stage. In his own words, he explains how he became one of God's vessels. Read "The Blessed Man" and allow God to transform your life. Maxine Brown, wife of the late Vincent Brown

A Collection of God's Wisdom

The Blessed Man

"Tacky's revolt, in modern-day Jamaica, was the largest slave uprising in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic. A strikingly modern guerilla conflict, the revolt inspired both fear of and sympathy toward black lives. Vincent Brown offers a gripping account of the fighting and its reverberations across an interconnected world"--

The lilac bush

Tacky’s revolt, in modern-day Jamaica, was the largest slave uprising in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic. A strikingly modern guerilla conflict, the revolt inspired both fear of and sympathy toward black lives. Vincent Brown offers a gripping account of the fighting and its reverberations across an interconnected world.

Tacky’s Revolt

What did people make of death in the world of Atlantic slavery? Brown asks this question about Jamaica. 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.

The Reaper's Garden

Vincent Brown

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