Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 340 pages)
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illustrations, maps
ISBN:
030024097X
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9780300240979
Series Statement:
Yale scholarship online
Content:
A major reassessment of the development of race and subjecthood in the British Atlantic Focusing on Jamaica, Britain's most valuable colony in the Americas by the mid-eighteenth century, Brooke Newman explores the relationship between racial classifications and the inherited rights and privileges associated with British subject status. Weaving together a diverse range of sources, she shows how colonial racial ideologies rooted in fictions of blood ancestry at once justified permanent, hereditary slavery for Africans and barred members of certain marginalized groups from laying claim to British liberties on the basis of hereditary status
Content:
Part One. Blood, sovereignty, and the law. The birthright of freeborn subjects -- Blood of the father -- Whiteness and hereditary blood status -- Part Two. Blood, mixture, abolition, and empire. Blood ties in the colonial sexual economy -- Enslaved women and British comic culture -- Inheritable blood and the imperial body politic -- Conclusion.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300225556
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0300225555
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300225556
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Newman, Brooke N Dark Inheritance New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
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History.
