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Children of uncertain fortune : mixed-race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic family, 1733-1833
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"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 r...
"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"--
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- Creator
- Daniel Livesay
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 411 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 1469634430, 1469634457, 9781469634432, 9798890852168, 9781469634449, 1469634449, 9781469634456
- OCLC
- ocn976278310, on1019680915
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects
- Great Britain -- Race relations -- History.
- Jamaica -- Race relations -- History.
- Racially mixed people -- Jamaica -- Social conditions -- History -- 18th century.
- Racially mixed people -- Jamaica -- Social conditions -- History -- 19th century.
- Racially mixed people -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- History -- 18th century.
- Racially mixed people -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- History -- 19th century.
- Racially mixed people -- Civil rights -- Jamaica -- History -- 18th century.
- Racially mixed people -- Civil rights -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
- Racially mixed people -- Civil rights -- Jamaica -- History -- 19th century.
- Racially mixed people -- Civil rights -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.