{"id":14227,"date":"2011-06-16T04:07:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T04:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=14227"},"modified":"2012-01-23T02:07:29","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T02:07:29","slug":"researcher-presents-new-views-on-18th-century-mixed-races-and-their-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=14227","title":{"rendered":"Researcher presents new views on 18th century mixed races and their families"},"content":{"rendered":"

Researcher presents new views on 18th century mixed races and their families<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

William & Mary: News & Events<\/a>
\n2011-06-15<\/p>\n

Andrea Davis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Daniel Livesay<\/a>, NEH postdoctoral fellow at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture at William & Mary<\/a>, presented a paper at the University of Texas in February that discussed the mixed children of white men and black women and their impact on British society in the 18th century. The BBC has contacted him to use some of this new information for a documentary it is working on.
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\nHis paper focused on racial groups traditionally labeled as creoles<\/a> in colonial Louisiana<\/a> and mulattos<\/a> in the Caribbean<\/a>. Livesay\u2019s dissertation centered on social hierarchies in 18th century Britain and the family ties of mixed children both born in Jamaica and of British descent<\/a>.
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\nAccording to his paper, \u201cPreparing to Meet the Atlantic Family: Relatives of Color in Eighteenth-Century Britain,\u201d mixed-race children like Edward Thomas Marsh and James Tailyour and their families\u2019 responses signified a time in Britain where society heatedly debated the issue of blacks as inferior.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring those two decades, debates on the humanity of the slave trade branched into numerous ancillary arguments over skin color, equality, and racial gradation,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe issues of slavery and family overlapped, with observers commenting on the sexual standards of enslaved families, and the demographic implications throughout the Atlantic of an empire with unrestricted connections between races.\u201d<\/p>\n

These children faced a serious dilemma. Like the creoles and mulatto, their place in 18th century British society was uncertain. On the one hand, having mothers of color made them slaves by birth; at the same time, their white father\u2019s heritage gave them freedom. Livesay says they stood between the two social placements set out in British and even colonial society. What determined their place was the amount of acceptance they received from their British relatives…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Researcher presents new views on 18th century mixed races and their families William & Mary: News & Events 2011-06-15 Andrea Davis Daniel Livesay, NEH postdoctoral fellow at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture at William & Mary, presented a paper at the University of Texas in February that discussed the mixed children […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,459,6940,10,20],"tags":[6551,154,6550,6549,6548],"class_list":["post-14227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-history","category-slavery","category-uk","category-usa","tag-andrea-davis","tag-daniel-livesay","tag-omohundro-institute-of-early-american-history-and-culture","tag-william-mary-college","tag-william-mary-news-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}