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

"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 petiti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Livesay, Daniel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Williamsburg, Virginia : Chapel Hill : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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