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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 - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Daniel LivesaySeries:Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American HistoPublish date:2018-01-22Pages:432
Language:EnglishPublisher:Omohundro Institute and Unc PressISBN-13:9781469634432ISBN-10:1469634430UPC:9781469634432Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Caribbean & West Indies, Europe, Black Studies (Global)Book Topic:Great BritainSize:9.35 x 8.37 x 1.27 inchesWeight:1.6909Product ID:SCJ32HEK61
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 is the first scholar to follow 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.

The presence of these elite children of color in Britain pushed popular opinion in the British Atlantic world toward narrower conceptions of race and kinship. Members of Parliament, colonial assemblymen, merchant kings, and cultural arbiters--the very people who decided Britain's colonial policies, debated abolition, passed marital laws, and arbitrated inheritance disputes--rubbed shoulders with these mixed-race Caribbean migrants in parlors and sitting rooms. Upper-class Britons also resented colonial transplants and coveted their inheritances; family intimacy gave way to racial exclusion. By the early nineteenth century, relatives had become strangers.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Omohundro Institute and Unc PressISBN-13:9781469634432ISBN-10:1469634430UPC:9781469634432Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Caribbean & West Indies, Europe, Black Studies (Global)Book Topic:Great BritainSize:9.35 x 8.37 x 1.27 inchesWeight:1.6909Product ID:SCJ32HEK61
Livesay, Daniel: - Daniel Livesay is assistant professor of history at Claremont McKenna College.
Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press

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