Brown, “Social Death and Political Life in the Study of Slavery”

January 29, 2010 in Vincent Brown
Tags: articles, caribbean, scholarship

“The Abolition of the Slave Trade, Or the inhumanity of dealers in human flesh exemplified in Captn. Kimber’s treatment of a young Negro girl of 15 for her virjen [sic] Image Reference TRADE-01, as shown on www.slaveryimages.org, sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the University of Virginia Library.”] Click for Cite Vincent [...]

Who Reads an Early American Book?

June 27, 2009 in Caroline Winterer, Carolyn Eastman, François Furstenberg, James Sidbury, John Wood Sweet, Joyce Chaplin, Matthew Mason, Sarah Knott, Vincent Brown
Tags: african diaspora, resources, sources, teaching

In a special issue of the Common Place, historians weigh in on the early American books that inspire them as teachers and researchers: The nine historians featured here treat literature as evidence, but they do not see the books they recommend as repositories of neutral “facts.” Carolyn Eastman considers the readers of a frequently reprinted [...]

Coming Soon: Mortuary Politics of the African Diaspora

February 17, 2008 in Ira Berlin, James Sidbury, Laurent DuBois, Marcus Rediker, Saidiya Hartman, Vincent Brown
Tags: scholarship

On February 28, 2008, Harvard University Press will release Vincent Brown’s The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery. What are people saying? From the HUP website: Vincent Brown makes the dead talk. With his deep learning and powerful historical imagination, he calls upon the departed to explain the living. The [...]