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Children of Uncertain Fortune
Mixed-Race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic Family, 1733-1833
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Artikel-Nr:
9781469634432
Veröffentl:
2018
Erscheinungsdatum:
22.01.2018
Seiten:
432
Autor:
Daniel Livesay
Gewicht:
767 g
Format:
237x213x32 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Daniel Livesay is assistant professor of history at Claremont McKenna College.
"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"