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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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"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. |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Note on Terminology; Introduction; 1 Inheritance, Family, and Mixed-Race Jamaicans, 1700-1761; 2 Early Abolitionism and Mixed-Race Migration into Britain, 1762-1778; 3 Lineage and Litigation, 1783-1788; 4 Abolition, Revolution, and Migration, 1788-1793; 5 Tales of Two Families, 1793-1800; 6 Imperial Pressures, 1800-1812; 7 New Struggles and Old Ideas, 1813-1833; Conclusion. |
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Appendix 1. Percentage of White Men's Wills, Proven in Jamaica, with Acknowledged Mixed-Race Children That Include Bequests for Such Offspring in Britain, Either Presently Resident, or Soon to Be Sent There, 1773-1815; Appendix 2. Genealogical Charts; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Great Britain -- Race relations -- History.
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Great Britain. |
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Race relations. |
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History. |
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Jamaica -- Race relations -- History.
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Jamaica. |
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Racially mixed people -- Jamaica -- Social conditions -- History -- 18th century.
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Racially mixed people. |
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Social conditions. |
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18th century |
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Racially mixed people -- Jamaica -- Social conditions -- History -- 19th century.
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Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Racially mixed people -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- History -- 18th century.
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Racially mixed people -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- History -- 19th century.
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Racially mixed people -- Civil rights -- Jamaica -- History -- 18th century.
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Racially mixed people -- Civil rights. |
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Racially mixed people -- Civil rights -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Racially mixed people -- Civil rights -- Jamaica -- History -- 19th century.
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Racially mixed people -- Civil rights -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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1700-1899 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Livesay, Daniel. Children of uncertain fortune. Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018] 9781469634432 (DLC) 2017030142 (OCoLC)976278310 |
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9781469634449 (electronic book) |
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1469634449 (electronic book) |
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9781469634456 (electronic book) |
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1469634457 (electronic book) |
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9781469634432 |
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1469634430 |
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(Coutts)037795752 |
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