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

by Christine Walker

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469658798
• ISBN13: 9781469658797
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"