Format:
x, 317 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:
9781469658797
,
9781469655260
Content:
Port Royal -- Kingston -- Plantations -- Inheritance bequests -- Nonmarital intimacies -- Manumissions.
Content:
"'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"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781469655277
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Walker, Christine Jamaica ladies Chapel Hill : Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, 2020 ISBN 9781469655284
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Jamaika
;
Sklaverei
;
Frau
;
Geschichte 1670-1833
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