Bibliograph

Children of uncertain fortune, mixed-race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic family, 1733-1833, Daniel Livesay

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Children of uncertain fortune, mixed-race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic family, 1733-1833, Daniel Livesay

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Children of uncertain fortune

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Daniel Livesay

Sub title

mixed-race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic family, 1733-1833

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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