Children of uncertain fortune : mixed-race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic family, 1733-1833
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Children of uncertain fortune : mixed-race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic family, 1733-1833
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, c2018
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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
