Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic
by
Kit Candlin, Cassandra Pybus, Patrick Rael
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
In the Caribbean colony of Grenada in 1797, Dorothy Thomas signed the manumission documents for her elderly slave Betty. Thomas owned dozens of slaves and was well on her way to amassing the fortune that would make her the richest black resident in the nearby colony of Demerara. What made the transaction...