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001			on1151407802
003			OCoLC
005			20240726105143.0
008			200421s2020 vauab ob s001 0 eng d
040			_aNT _beng _erda _epn _cNT _dP@U _dEBLCP _dUKAHL _dYDX _dNHM _dJSTOR
020			_a9781469655284 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
020			_a9781469655277 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050	0	4	_aHQ1517 _b.J363 2020
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aWalker, Christine _q(Christine Millen), _e1
245	1	0	_aJamaica ladies : _bfemale slaveholders and the creation of Britain's Atlantic empire / _cChristine Walker.
260			_aWilliamsburg, Virginia : _bOmohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; _c(c)2020.
260			_aChapel Hill, [North Carolina] : _bUniversity of North Carolina Press, _c(c)2020.
300			_a1 online resource (x, 317 pages) : _billustrations, maps
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
504			_a2
520	0		_a"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. Female colonists employed slaveholding as a means of advancing themselves socially and financially on the island. By owning others, they wielded forms of legal, social, economic, and cultural authority not available to them in Britain. In addition, slaveholding allowed free women of African descent, who were not far removed from slavery themselves, to cultivate, perform, and cement their free status. Alongside their male counterparts, women bought, sold, stole, and punished the people they claimed as property and vociferously defended their rights to do so. As slavery's beneficiaries, these women worked to stabilize and propel this brutal labor regime from its inception."-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0	0	_aPort Royal -- _tKingston -- _tPlantations -- _tInheritance bequests -- _tNonmarital intimacies -- _tManumissions.
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650		0	_aWomen colonists _zJamaica _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aSlaveholders _zJamaica _xHistory.
650		0	_aWomen, Black _zJamaica _xHistory.
650		0	_aWomen _zJamaica _xSocial conditions _xHistory.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
700	1		_aOmohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, _epublisher.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2446260&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
942			_cOB _D _eEB _hHQ _m2020 _QOL _R _x _8NFIC _2LOC
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell