Dark Inheritance

Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica

Nonfiction, History, Modern, 17th Century, Americas, Caribbean & West Indies, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Discrimination & Race Relations
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Author: Brooke N. Newman ISBN: 9780300240979
Publisher: Yale University Press Publication: August 28, 2018
Imprint: Yale University Press Language: English
Author: Brooke N. Newman
ISBN: 9780300240979
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication: August 28, 2018
Imprint: Yale University Press
Language: English

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, Brooke Newman explores the relationship between racial classifications and the inherited rights and privileges associated with British subject status. Weaving together a diverse range of sources, she shows how colonial racial ideologies rooted in fictions of blood ancestry at once justified permanent, hereditary slavery for Africans and barred members of certain marginalized groups from laying claim to British liberties on the basis of hereditary status.

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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, Brooke Newman explores the relationship between racial classifications and the inherited rights and privileges associated with British subject status. Weaving together a diverse range of sources, she shows how colonial racial ideologies rooted in fictions of blood ancestry at once justified permanent, hereditary slavery for Africans and barred members of certain marginalized groups from laying claim to British liberties on the basis of hereditary status.

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