Children of uncertain fortune: mixed-race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic family, 1733-1833

"By tracing the largely forgotten eighteenth-century migration of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to Great Britain, "Children of Uncertain Fortune" reinterprets the evolution of British racial ideologies as a matter of negotiating family membership. Using wills, legal petiti...

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1. Verfasser: Livesay, Daniel (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Williamsburg, Virginia Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture [2018]
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Zusammenfassung:"By tracing the largely forgotten eighteenth-century migration of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to Great Britain, "Children of Uncertain Fortune" reinterprets the evolution of British racial ideologies as a matter of negotiating family membership. Using wills, legal petitions, family correspondences, and inheritance lawsuits, Daniel Livesay ... follow[s] the hundreds of children born to white planters and Caribbean women of color who crossed the ocean for educational opportunities, professional apprenticeships, marriage prospects, or refuge from colonial prejudices"--
Beschreibung:xvii, 411 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781469634432
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