Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Summary
"By tracing the largely forgotten eighteenth-century migration of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to Great Britain, "Children of Uncertain Fortune" reinterprets the evolution of British racial ideologies as a matter of negotiating family membership. Using wills, legal petitions, family correspondences, and inheritance lawsuits, Daniel Livesay ... follow[s] the hundreds of children born to white planters and Caribbean women of color who crossed the ocean for educational opportunities, professional apprenticeships, marriage prospects, or refuge from colonial prejudices"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2018 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2018 History.
Project MUSE - 2018 Latin American and Caribbean Studies.