Walker, Christine <br/><br/>
Jamaica ladies :  female slaveholders and the creation of Britain's Atlantic empire / 
Christine Walker. 
 - x, 317 pages ;  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Port Royal -- Kingston -- Plantations -- Inheritance bequests -- Nonmarital intimacies -- Manumissions. 
<br/><br/> "'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"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781469655260 1469655268 9781469658797 1469658798 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2019053442 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Börngen, ...
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1600-1799 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women colonists--History--Jamaica--18th century.<br/>Women colonists--History--Jamaica--17th century.<br/>Slaveholders--History.--Jamaica<br/>Women, Black--History.--Jamaica<br/>Women--Social conditions--History.--Jamaica<br/>British colonies.<br/>Economic history.<br/>Slaveholders.<br/>Women, Black.<br/>Women colonists.<br/>Women--Social conditions.<br/>Women colonists--History--Jamaica--18th century.<br/>Women colonists--History--Jamaica--17th century.<br/>Slaveholders--History.--Jamaica<br/>Women, Black--History.--Jamaica<br/>Women--Social conditions--History.--Jamaica
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Great Britain--Colonies--Economic conditions.--America<br/>America.<br/>Jamaica.<br/>Great Britain--Colonies--Economic conditions.--America
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ1517  / .W35 2020 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.40941 Ja Wal