Children of Uncertain Fortune : Mixed-Race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic Family, 1733-1833 /

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"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
Autor principal: Livesay, Daniel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Racially mixed people > Civil rights.
Race relations.
Racially mixed people > Social conditions.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Racially mixed people > Civil rights > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Racially mixed people > Civil rights > Jamaica > History > 19th century.
Racially mixed people > Civil rights > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Racially mixed people > Civil rights > Jamaica > History > 18th century.
Racially mixed people > Great Britain > Social conditions > History > 19th century.
Racially mixed people > Great Britain > Social conditions > History > 18th century.
Racially mixed people > Jamaica > Social conditions > History > 19th century.
Racially mixed people > Jamaica > Social conditions > History > 18th century.
Jamaica.
Great Britain.
Grande-Bretagne > Relations raciales > Histoire.
Jamaica > Race relations > History.
Great Britain > Race relations > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"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"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (432 pages).
ISBN:9781469634456

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