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Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire

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Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire - Walker, Christine
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"'Jamaica Ladies' is the first systematic study of the free and freed women of European, Euro-African, and African descent who perpetuated chattel slavery and reaped its profits in the British Empire. Their actions helped transform Jamaica into the wealthiest slaveholding colony in the Anglo-Atlantic world. Starting in the 1670s, a surprisingly large and diverse group of women helped secure English control of Jamaica and, crucially, aided its developing and expanding slave labor regime by acquiring enslaved men, women, and ...

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Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire 2020, Omohundro Institute and Unc Press, Chapel Hill

ISBN-13: 9781469658797

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Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire 2020, Omohundro Institute and Unc Press, Chapel Hill

ISBN-13: 9781469655260

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