Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: Simon Taylor
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Three years prior to the ending of the slave trade, Jamaica’s richest and most influential merchant mused on the possible consequences of abolition. Writing to his friend George Hibbert in January of 1804, Simon Taylor offered a stark vision of the British imperial economy without slave importation, echoing scores of other pro-slavery writers who preached…
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The Planter’s Fictions: Identity, Intimacy, and the Negotiations of Power in Colonial Jamaica University of Victoria, Canada 2010 127 pages Meleisa Ono-George A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Masters of Art In the Department of History By the latter quarter of the eighteenth century, as the movement against…