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Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain’s Atlantic Empire

by Christine Walker

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 divers

Publisher

Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture

Publication date

2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

336

ISBN

9781469658797