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

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

Author/creator	Livesay, Daniel author.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Description	pages cm
Subject(s)	Racially mixed people--Jamaica --Social conditions --18th century. Racially mixed people--Jamaica --Social conditions --19th century. Racially mixed people--Great Britain --Social conditions --18th century. Racially mixed people--Great Britain --Social conditions --19th century. Racially mixed people--Civil rights --Jamaica --History --18th century. 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. Great Britain--Race relations --History. Jamaica--Race relations --History.

Abstract	"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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2017030142
ISBN	9781469634432 (cloth ; alk. paper)
ISBN	1469634430 (cloth ; alk. paper)
ISBN	(ebook)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	DA125 .A1 L57 2018	✔ Available	Place Hold