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A Dark Inheritance: Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica

by Brooke N. Newman

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, this book explores the relationship between racial classifications and the inherited rights and privileges associated with British subject status. Brooke Newman reveals the

Publisher

Yale University Press

Publication date

2017

Format

Print edition

Pages

352

ISBN

9780300225556