D aniel L ivesay . Children of Uncertain Fortune
Mixed-Race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic Family, 1733–1833
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9498557 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brooke N Newman (Virginia Commonwealth University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 124 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 206-207 |
| Publication date | 2019-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ahr/rhy497 |
| OpenAlex | W2914564437 |
| Language | EN |
In Children of Uncertain Fortune: Mixed-Race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic Family, 1733–1833, Daniel Livesay focuses on the migration of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to Britain in the century before the Slave Emancipation Act of 1833. Yet his study is not simply a biographical analysis of Jamaican migrants of joint European and African ancestry. Instead, Livesay examines the kinship networks and possible paths available to the illegitimate offspring of propertied white men and enslaved and free women of African descent as a means of understanding the complexities of family belonging and race in the British Atlantic. Contending that neither notions of family membership nor racial conceptions remained static over the long eighteenth century, Livesay seeks to offer a richer, more nuanced portrait of interracial relationships in both colonial Jamaica and metropolitan Britain. Above all, he aims to demonstrate the central role of family in the development of Atlantic racial ideologies.
Archaeology · Colonialism · Elite · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Ideology · Kinship · Mixed race · Political science · Politics · Portrait · Race (biology) · Sociology · Anthropology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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