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

by Brooke N. Newman

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300225555
• ISBN13: 9780300225556
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.8" x 9.3"