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A Dark Inheritance: Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica
Contributor(s): Newman, Brooke N. (Author)

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ISBN: 0300225555     ISBN-13: 9780300225556
Publisher: Yale University Press
OUR PRICE: $42.00  

Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: August 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Modern - 17th Century
- History | Caribbean & West Indies - General
- Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations
Dewey: 325.341
LCCN: 2017964207
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.8" W x 9.3" L (1.40 lbs) 352 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 17th Century
- Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product
Review Citations: Choice 01/01/2019
 
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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, this book explores the relationship between racial classifications and the inherited rights and privileges associated with British subject status. Brooke Newman reveals the centrality of notions of blood and blood mixture to evolving racial definitions and sexual practices in colonial Jamaica and to legal and political debates over slavery and the rights of imperial subjects on both sides of the Atlantic.

Weaving together a diverse range of sources, Newman 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. This groundbreaking study demonstrates that challenges to an Atlantic slave system underpinned by distinctions of blood had far-reaching consequences for British understandings of race, gender, and national belonging.

 
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