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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.

Publication Info. Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography 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.
Contents 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.
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.
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Subject Great Britain -- Race relations -- History.
Great Britain.
Race relations.
History.
Jamaica -- Race relations -- History.
Jamaica.
Racially mixed people -- Jamaica -- Social conditions -- History -- 18th century.
Racially mixed people.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Racially mixed people -- Jamaica -- Social conditions -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Racially mixed people -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- History -- 18th century.
Racially mixed people -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- History -- 19th century.
Racially mixed people -- Civil rights -- Jamaica -- History -- 18th century.
Racially mixed people -- Civil rights.
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.
Chronological Term 1700-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
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
ISBN 9781469634449 (electronic book)
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9781469634432
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