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
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 18, 2018)