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

By:

Walker, Christine (Christine Millen) [author.]

Contributor(s):

Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture [publisher.]

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:

History.

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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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	National Library of Jamaica	Acquisition	305.40941 Ja Wal (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		1000000128369
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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