Vincent Brown is the Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University and the author of The Reaper's Garden, which won the James A. Rawley Prize, the Louis Gottschalk Prize, and the Merle Curti Award.
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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 res... SEE MORE