Children of uncertain fortune : mixed-race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic family, 1733-1833 /...
Children of uncertain fortune : mixed-race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic family, 1733-1833 /...
Children of uncertain fortune : mixed-race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic family, 1733-1833 / Daniel Livesay.
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Publisher
Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Call Numbers
G 2019/0119
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Language
English
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Physical content
xvii, 411 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
1. Inheritance, Family, and Mixed-Race Jamaicans, 1700 -- 1761 -- 2. Early Abolitionism and Mixed-Race Migration into Britain, 1762 -- 1778 -- 3. Lineage and Litigation, 1783 -- 1788 -- 4. Abolition, Revolution, and Migration, 1788 -- 1793 -- 5. Tales of Two Families, 1793 -- 1800 -- 6. Imperial Pre...
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Publisher
Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Date Published
[2018]
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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 Lives...
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Children of uncertain fortune : mixed-race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic family, 1733-1833 / Daniel Livesay.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2019/0119
Record Identifier
74VKV8ZEVRll
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV8ZEVRll
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ISBN
9781469634432
DDC
305.230890596009041
MMS ID
991024186319102626
