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Jamaica ladies : female slaveholders and the creation of Britain's Atlantic empire / Christine Walker.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: x, 317 pages ; illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781469655260
  • 1469655268
  • 9781469658797
  • 1469658798
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.40941 Ja Wal 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ1517 .W35 2020
Contents:
Port Royal -- Kingston -- Plantations -- Inheritance bequests -- Nonmarital intimacies -- Manumissions.
Summary: "'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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Books Books National Library of Jamaica Acquisition 305.40941 Ja Wal (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 1000000128369
Books Books National Library of Jamaica Rare Books Floor 305.40941 Ja Wal (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 1000000130027

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Port Royal -- Kingston -- Plantations -- Inheritance bequests -- Nonmarital intimacies -- Manumissions.

"'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"-- Provided by publisher.

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