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Title: Children of Uncertain Fortune Condition: New Subtitle: Mixed-Race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic Family, 1733-1833 Author: Daniel Livesay Format: Hardback EAN: 9781469634432 ISBN: 9781469634432 Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press Genre: History Topic: Society & Culture, Social Sciences Release Date: 30/01/2018 Description: 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' 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: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 235mm Item Length: 155mm Item Weight: 775g Book Series: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Release Year: 2018
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