| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 340 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Yale scholarship online
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Yale scholarship online.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part One. Blood, sovereignty, and the law. The birthright of freeborn subjects -- Blood of the father -- Whiteness and hereditary blood status -- Part Two. Blood, mixture, abolition, and empire. Blood ties in the colonial sexual economy -- Enslaved women and British comic culture -- Inheritable blood and the imperial body politic -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
A major reassessment of the development of race and subjecthood in the British Atlantic Focusing on Jamaica, Britain's most valuable colony in the Americas by the mid-eighteenth century, Brooke Newman explores the relationship between racial classifications and the inherited rights and privileges associated with British subject status. Weaving together a diverse range of sources, she shows how colonial racial ideologies rooted in fictions of blood ancestry at once justified permanent, hereditary slavery for Africans and barred members of certain marginalized groups from laying claim to British liberties on the basis of hereditary status. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Jamaica -- Ethnic relations.
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Jamaica. |
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Ethnic relations. |
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Jamaica -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- Jamaica.
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Great Britain. |
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Jamaica -- History -- 18th century.
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| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Privilege (Social psychology)
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Privilege (Social psychology) |
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Colonies. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration. |
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History. |
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HISTORY -- Modern -- 17th Century. |
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British colonies. |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Social privilege. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Newman, Brooke N. Dark Inheritance. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018] 9780300225556 (DLC) 2017964207 (OCoLC)1024159607 |
| ISBN |
9780300240979 (electronic book) |
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030024097X (electronic book) |
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9780300225556 (hardcover) |
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0300225555 (hardcover) |
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