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Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner of the Frederick
Douglass Book Prize Winner of the Elsa Goveia Book Prize Winner of
the James A. Rawley Prize in the History of Race Relations Winner
of the P. Sterling Stuckey Book Prize Winner of the Harriet Tubman
Prize Winner of the Phillis Wheatley Book Award Finalist for the
Cundill Prize A gripping account of the largest slave revolt in the
eighteenth-century British Atlantic world, an uprising that laid
bare the interconnectedness of Europe, Africa, and America, shook
the foundations of empire, and reshaped ideas of race and popular
belonging. In the second half of the eighteenth century, as
European imperial conflicts extended the domain of capitalist
agriculture, warring African factions fed their captives to the
transatlantic slave trade while masters struggled continuously to
keep their restive slaves under the yoke. In this contentious
atmosphere, a movement of enslaved West Africans in Jamaica (then
called Coromantees) organized to throw off that yoke by violence.
Their uprising-which became known as Tacky's Revolt-featured a
style of fighting increasingly familiar today: scattered militias
opposing great powers, with fighters hard to distinguish from
noncombatants. It was also part of a more extended borderless
conflict that spread from Africa to the Americas and across the
island. Even after it was put down, the insurgency rumbled
throughout the British Empire at a time when slavery seemed the
dependable bedrock of its dominion. That certitude would never be
the same, nor would the views of black lives, which came to inspire
both more fear and more sympathy than before. Tracing the roots,
routes, and reverberations of this event across disparate parts of
the Atlantic world, Vincent Brown offers us a superb geopolitical
thriller. Tacky's Revolt expands our understanding of the
relationship between European, African, and American history, as it
speaks to our understanding of wars of terror today.
Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner of the Frederick
Douglass Book Prize Winner of the Elsa Goveia Book Prize Winner of
the James A. Rawley Prize in the History of Race Relations Winner
of the P. Sterling Stuckey Book Prize Winner of the Harriet Tubman
Prize Winner of the Phillis Wheatley Book Award Finalist for the
Cundill Prize "Brilliant...groundbreaking...Brown's profound
analysis and revolutionary vision of the Age of Slave War-from the
too-often overlooked Tacky's Revolt to the better-known Haitian
Revolution-gives us an original view of the birth of modern freedom
in the New World." -Cornel West "Not only a story of the
insurrection, but 'a martial geography of Atlantic slavery,'
vividly demonstrating how warfare shaped every aspect of
bondage...Forty years after Tacky's defeat, new arrivals from
Africa were still hearing about the daring rebels who upended the
island." -Harper's "A sobering read for contemporary audiences in
countries engaged in forever wars...It is also a useful reminder
that the distinction between victory and defeat, when it comes to
insurgencies, is often fleeting: Tacky may have lost his battle,
but the enslaved did eventually win the war." -New Yorker In the
second half of the eighteenth century, as European imperial
conflicts extended their domain, warring African factions fed their
captives to the transatlantic slave trade while masters struggled
to keep their restive slaves under the yoke. In this contentious
atmosphere, a movement of enslaved West Africans in Jamaica
organized to throw off that yoke by violence. Their uprising-which
became known as Tacky's Revolt-featured a style of fighting
increasingly familiar today: scattered militias opposing great
powers, with fighters hard to distinguish from noncombatants. Even
after it was put down, the insurgency rumbled throughout the
British Empire at a time when slavery seemed the dependable bedrock
of its dominion. That certitude would never be the same, nor would
the views of black lives, which came to inspire both more fear and
more sympathy than before. Tracing the roots, routes, and
reverberations of this event, Tacky's Revolt expands our
understanding of the relationship between European, African, and
American history as it speaks to our understanding of wars of
terror today.
Nineteenth-century stoneware by enslaved and free potters living in
Edgefield, South Carolina, highlights the central role of Black
artists in the region's long-standing pottery traditions
Recentering the development of industrially scaled Southern pottery
traditions around enslaved and free Black potters working in the
mid-nineteenth century, this catalogue presents groundbreaking
scholarship and new perspectives on stoneware made in and around
Edgefield, South Carolina. Among the remarkable works included are
a selection of regional face vessels as well as masterpieces by
enslaved potter and poet David Drake, who signed, dated, and
incised verses on many of his jars, even though literacy among
enslaved people was criminalized at the time. Essays on the
production, collection, dispersal, and reception of stoneware from
Edgefield offer a critical look at what it means to collect,
exhibit, and interpret objects made by enslaved artisans. Several
featured contemporary works inspired by or related to Edgefield
stoneware attest to the cultural and historical significance of
this body of work, and an interview with acclaimed contemporary
artist Simone Leigh illuminates its continued relevance. Published
by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University
Press Exhibition Schedule: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
(September 9, 2022-February 5, 2023) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
(March 6-July 9, 2023) University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann
Arbor (August 26, 2023-January 7, 2024) High Museum of Art, Atlanta
(February 16-May 12, 2024)
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.
Between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, the connections
among Africa, the Americas, and Europe transformed world
history--through maritime exploration, commercial engagements,
human migrations and settlements, political realignments and
upheavals, cultural exchanges, and more. This book, the first
encyclopedic reference work on Atlantic history, takes an
integrated, multicontinental approach that emphasizes the dynamics
of change and the perspectives and motivations of the peoples who
made it happen. The entries--all specially commissioned for this
volume from an international team of leading scholars--synthesize
the latest scholarship on central themes, including economics,
migration, politics, war, technologies and science, the physical
environment, and culture.
Part one features five major essays that trace the changes
distinctive to each chronological phase of Atlantic history. Part
two includes more than 125 entries on key topics, from the
seemingly familiar viewed in unfamiliar and provocative ways (the
Seven Years' War, trading companies), to less conventional subjects
(family networks, canon law, utopias).
This is an indispensable resource for students, researchers, and
scholars in a range of fields, from early American, African, Latin
American, and European history to the histories of economics,
religion, and science.The first encyclopedic reference on Atlantic
historyFeatures five major essays and more than 125 alphabetical
entriesProvides essential context on major areas of change:
Economies (for example, the slave trade, marine resources,
commodities, specie, trading companies)Populations (emigrations,
Native American removals, blended communities)Politics and law (the
Law of Nations, royal liberties, paramount chiefdoms, independence
struggles in Haiti, the Hispanic Americas, the United States, and
France)Military actions (the African and Napoleonic wars, the Seven
Years' War, wars of conquest)Technologies and science (cartography,
nautical science, geography, healing practices)The physical
environment (climate and weather, forest resources, agricultural
production, food and diets, disease)Cultures and communities
(captivity narratives, religions and religious practices)Includes
original contributions from Sven Beckert, Holly Brewer, Peter
Coclanis, Seymour Drescher, Eliga Gould, David S. Jones, Willem
Klooster, Mark Peterson, Steven Pincus, Richard Price, Sophia
Rosenfeld, and many moreContains illustrations, maps, and
bibliographies
Contributors include: Sven Beckert, Holly Brewer, Peter
Coclanis, Seymour Drescher, Eliga Gould, David S. Jones, Willem
Klooster, Mark Peterson, Steven Pincus, Richard Price and Sophia
Rosenfeld.
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