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

byBrooke N. Newman

Brooke N. Newman uses A Dark Inheritance to investigate blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica through a carefully framed historical account. Its account follows central actors and turning points while showing how the story reflects questions in the wider field of history. Attention to evidence keeps the discussion anchored while allowing disagreement, uncertainty, and unintended consequences to remain visible. Readers finish with a sharper understanding of the subject and why its consequences still deserve attention. The emphasis stays on explanation, context, and the lived consequences behind the larger argument.

Publisher

Yale University Press

Publication date

2017

Format

Print edition

Pages

352

ISBN

9780300225556