ISBN:
9781469658797
,
9781469655260
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 317 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Diagramme
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Walker, Christine Jamaica ladies
DDC:
305.40941
Keywords:
Women colonists History 18th century
;
Women colonists History 17th century
;
Slaveholders History
;
Women, Black History
;
Women Social conditions
;
History
;
Great Britain Colonies
;
Economic conditions
;
Jamaika
;
Sklaverei
;
Frau
;
Geschichte 1670-1833
Abstract:
Port Royal -- Kingston -- Plantations -- Inheritance bequests -- Nonmarital intimacies -- Manumissions.
Abstract:
"'Jamaica Ladies' is the first systematic study of the free and freed women of European, Euro-African, and African descent who perpetuated chattel slavery and reaped its profits in the British Empire. Their actions helped transform Jamaica into the wealthiest slaveholding colony in the Anglo-Atlantic world. Starting in the 1670s, a surprisingly large and diverse group of women helped secure English control of Jamaica and, crucially, aided its developing and expanding slave labor regime by acquiring enslaved men, women, and children to protect their own tenuous claims to status and independence"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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