Jenny Shaw: The Women of Rendezvous
The Women of Rendezvous
Buch
- A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery
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EUR 39,15*
- University of North Carolina Press, 12/2024
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781469682761
- Bestellnummer: 12072136
- Umfang: 280 Seiten
- Gewicht: 408 g
- Maße: 226 x 150 mm
- Stärke: 25 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 3.12.2024
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
"The Women of Rendezvous is a dramatic transatlantic story about five women who birthed children by the same prominent Barbados politician and enslaver. Two of the women were his wives, two he enslaved, and one was a servant in his household. All were determined to make their way in a world that vastly and differentially circumscribed their life choices. From a Barbados plantation to the center of England's empire in London, Hester Tomkyns, Frances Knights, Susannah Mingo, Elizabeth Ashcroft, and Dorothy Spendlove built remarkable lives for themselves and their children in spite of, not because of, the man who linked them together. Mining seventeenth- and eighteenth-century court records, deeds, wills, church registers, and estate inventories, Jenny Shaw centers the experiences of the women and their children, intertwining the microlevel relationships of family and the macrolevel political machinations of empire to show how white supremacy and racism developed in England and the colonies. Shaw also explores England's first slave society in North America, provides a glimpse into Black Britain long before the Windrush Generation of the twentieth century, and demonstrates that England itself was a society with slaves in the early modern era"-- Jenny Shaw
The Women of Rendezvous
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