| Children of Uncertain Fortune: Mixed-Race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic Family, 1733-1833 Contributor(s): Livesay, Daniel (Author) |
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ISBN: 1469634430 ISBN-13: 9781469634432 Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press OUR PRICE: $45.13 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Caribbean & West Indies - General - History | Europe - Great Britain - Georgian Era (1714-1837) - Social Science | Black Studies (global) |
| Dewey: 305.230 |
| LCCN: 2017030142 |
| Series: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo |
| Physical Information: 1.27" H x 8.37" W x 9.35" (1.69 lbs) 432 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies - Cultural Region - British Isles - Ethnic Orientation - Caribbean & West Indies - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 is the first scholar to follow 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. The presence of these elite children of color in Britain pushed popular opinion in the British Atlantic world toward narrower conceptions of race and kinship. Members of Parliament, colonial assemblymen, merchant kings, and cultural arbiters--the very people who decided Britain's colonial policies, debated abolition, passed marital laws, and arbitrated inheritance disputes--rubbed shoulders with these mixed-race Caribbean migrants in parlors and sitting rooms. Upper-class Britons also resented colonial transplants and coveted their inheritances; family intimacy gave way to racial exclusion. By the early nineteenth century, relatives had become strangers. |
Contributor Bio(s): Livesay, Daniel: - Daniel Livesay is assistant professor of history at Claremont McKenna College. |