A Dark Inheritance: Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica

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Focusing on Jamaica, Britain’s such a lot valuable colony within the Americas by the mid-eighteenth century,Brooke Newman explores the connection between racial classifications and the inherited rights and privileges related to British subject status. Weaving in combination a various range of sources, she shows how colonial racial ideologies rooted in fictions of blood ancestry directly justified permanent, hereditary slavery for Africans and barred members of sure marginalized teams from laying claim to British liberties at the basis of hereditary status.

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