Livesay, Daniel, <br/><br/>
Children of uncertain fortune :  mixed-race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic family, 1733-1833 / 
Daniel Livesay. 
 - Williamsburg, Virginia :  Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ;  (c)2018. Chapel Hill :  University of North Carolina Press,  (c)2018. 
 - 1 online resource. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Note on Terminology; Introduction; 1 Inheritance, Family, and Mixed-Race Jamaicans, 1700-1761; 2 Early Abolitionism and Mixed-Race Migration into Britain, 1762-1778; 3 Lineage and Litigation, 1783-1788; 4 Abolition, Revolution, and Migration, 1788-1793; 5 Tales of Two Families, 1793-1800; 6 Imperial Pressures, 1800-1812; 7 New Struggles and Old Ideas, 1813-1833; Conclusion Appendix 1. Percentage of White Men'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, 1773-1815; Appendix 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 
<br/><br/> "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"-- 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781469634449 9781469634456 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Racially mixed people--Social conditions--History--Jamaica--18th century.<br/>Racially mixed people--Social conditions--History--Jamaica--19th century.<br/>Racially mixed people--Social conditions--History--Great Britain--18th century.<br/>Racially mixed people--Social conditions--History--Great Britain--19th century.<br/>Racially mixed people--Civil rights--History--Jamaica--18th century.<br/>Racially mixed people--Civil rights--History--Great Britain--18th century.<br/>Racially mixed people--Civil rights--History--Jamaica--19th century.<br/>Racially mixed people--Civil rights--History--Great Britain--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DA125  / .C455 2018