Mixed-Race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic Family, 1733-1833
by
Daniel Livesay
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
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,...