ISBN:
1469634449
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1469634457
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9781469634449
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9781469634456
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Livesay, Daniel Children of uncertain fortune
DDC:
305.23089/0596009041
Keywords:
Racially mixed people Social conditions 18th century
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History
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Racially mixed people Social conditions 19th century
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History
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Racially mixed people Social conditions 18th century
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History
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Racially mixed people Social conditions 19th century
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History
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Racially mixed people Civil rights 18th century
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History
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Racially mixed people Civil rights 18th century
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History
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Racially mixed people Civil rights 19th century
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History
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Racially mixed people Civil rights 19th century
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History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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HISTORY ; Europe ; Great Britain
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Race relations
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Racially mixed people ; Civil rights
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History
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Jamaica Race relations
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History
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Great Britain Race relations
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History
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Great Britain
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Jamaica
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Appendix 1. Percentage of White Menâ#x80;#x99;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, 1773â#x80;#x93;1815Appendix 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
Abstract:
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Note on Terminology; Introduction; 1 Inheritance, Family, and Mixed-Race Jamaicans, 1700â#x80;#x93;1761; 2 Early Abolitionism and Mixed-Race Migration into Britain, 1762â#x80;#x93;1778; 3 Lineage and Litigation, 1783â#x80;#x93;1788; 4 Abolition, Revolution, and Migration, 1788â#x80;#x93;1793; 5 Tales of Two Families, 1793â#x80;#x93;1800; 6 Imperial Pressures, 1800â#x80;#x93;1812; 7 New Struggles and Old Ideas, 1813â#x80;#x93;1833; Conclusion
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"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469634432.001.0001
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