Jamaica ladies : female slaveholders and the creation of Britain's Atlantic empire / Christine Walker.
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
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781469655260
- 1469655268
- 9781469658797
- 1469658798
- Börngen
- 1600-1799
- Women colonists -- Jamaica -- History -- 18th century
- Women colonists -- Jamaica -- History -- 17th century
- Slaveholders -- Jamaica -- History
- Women, Black -- Jamaica -- History
- Women -- Jamaica -- Social conditions -- History
- British colonies
- Economic history
- Slaveholders
- Women, Black
- Women colonists
- Women -- Social conditions
- Women colonists -- Jamaica -- History -- 18th century
- Women colonists -- Jamaica -- History -- 17th century
- Slaveholders -- Jamaica -- History
- Women, Black -- Jamaica -- History
- Women -- Jamaica -- Social conditions -- History
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- Economic conditions
- America
- Jamaica
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- Economic conditions
- 305.40941 Ja Wal 23
- HQ1517 .W35 2020
Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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National Library of Jamaica | Acquisition | 305.40941 Ja Wal (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 1000000128369 | ||
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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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