Children of uncertain fortune : mixed-race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic family, 1733-1833 / Daniel Livesay.
By: Livesay, Daniel [author.].
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BookPublisher: Williamsburg, Virginia : University of North Carolina Press, c2018Description: xvi, 411 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9781469634432 (cased) :.Subject(s): Racially mixed people -- Jamaica -- Social conditions -- 18th century | Racially mixed people -- Jamaica -- Social conditions -- 19th century | Racially mixed people -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th century | Racially mixed people -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century | Racially mixed people -- Civil rights -- Jamaica -- History -- 18th century | Racially mixed people -- Civil rights -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century | Racially mixed people -- Civil rights -- Jamaica -- History -- 19th century | Racially mixed people -- Civil rights -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | Great Britain -- Race relations -- History | Jamaica -- Race relations -- HistoryDDC classification: 305.230 890 596 009 041 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"--
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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"--
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