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Author Livesay, Daniel, author

Title Children of uncertain fortune : mixed-race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic family, 1733-1833 / Daniel Livesay
Published Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]

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Contents Inheritance, family and mixed-race Jamaicans, 1700-1761 -- Early Abolitionism and mixed-race migration into Britain, 1762-1778 -- Lineage and litigation, 1782-1788 -- Abolition, revolution, and migration, 1788-1793 -- Tales of two families, 1793-1800 -- Imperial pressures, 1800-1812 -- New struggles and old ideas, 1813-1833
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 18, 2018)
Subject 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
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
Racially mixed people -- Social conditions
Race relations
Racially mixed people -- Civil rights
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Race relations -- History
Jamaica -- Race relations -- History
Subject Great Britain
Jamaica
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469634449
1469634449
9781469634456
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