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Author:

Livesay, Daniel, author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ;

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xvii, 411 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Subject:

Great Britain--History.--History.
Jamaica--History.--History.
Racially mixed people--Jamaica--History--History--18th century.
Racially mixed people--Jamaica--History--History--19th century.
Racially mixed people--Great Britain--History--History--18th century.
Racially mixed people--Great Britain--History--History--19th century.
Racially mixed people--History--Jamaica--History--18th century.
Racially mixed people--History--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Racially mixed people--History--Jamaica--History--19th century.
Racially mixed people--History--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1469634430
9781469634432

OCLC:

(OCoLC)976278310

LCCN:

2017030142

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)