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A dark inheritance : blood, race, and sex in colonial Jamaica by Brooke N. Newman is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is A dark inheritance : blood, race, and sex in colonial Jamaica about?
<p>A major reassessment of the development of race and subjecthood in the British Atlantic</p><p><br></p><p>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 definitions and sexual practices in colonial Jamaica
Who reads A dark inheritance : blood, race, and sex in colonial Jamaica?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Brooke N. Newman
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780300240979
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Science, Political Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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