Children of uncertain fortune : mixed-race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic family, 1733-1833
Racially mixed people Race relations Great Britain Jamaica e-böcker History
University of North Carolina Press
2018
EISBN 9781469634449
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
"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"--
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
"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"--
