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A Dark Inheritance - Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica (Hardcover)
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A Dark Inheritance - Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica (Hardcover)
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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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