Author: Daniel Livesay File Type: pdf p Segoe UIBy tracing the largely forgotten eighteenth-century migration of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to Great Britain,Children of Uncertain Fortunereinterprets the evolution of British racial ideologies as a matter of negotiating family membership. Using wills, legal petitions, family correspondences, and inheritance lawsuits, Daniel Livesay is the first scholar to follow the hundreds of children born to white planters and Caribbean women of color who crossed the ocean for educational opportunities, professional apprenticeships, marriage prospects, or refuge from colonial prejudices.p Segoe UIThe presence of these elite children of color in Britain pushed popular opinion in the British Atlantic world toward narrower conceptions of race and kinship. Members of Parliament, colonial assemblymen, merchant kings, and cultural arbiters--the very people who decided Britains colonial policies, debated abolition, passed marital laws, and arbitrated inheritance disputes--rubbed shoulders with these mixed-race Caribbean migrants in parlors and sitting rooms. Upper-class Britons also resented colonial transplants and coveted their inheritances family intimacy gave way to racial exclusion. By the early nineteenth century, relatives had become strangers.p Segoe UI*h3 Segoe UIReviewp Segoe UIChildren of Uncertain Fortuneoffers an unprecedented view of how elite Jamaicans and Britons came to distinguish between mixed-race and white kin. Daniel Livesay uncovers the conflicting stories families told as they constructed or challenged these concepts that would eventually define the social identities of millions of imperial subjects.--John D. Garrigus, University of Texas at Arlingtonp Segoe UIIn this tour de force, Daniel Livesay eloquently explores what confronted the mixed-race progeny of enslaved or free African Jamaican women and white men from the islands planter class who relocated to Britain in the century before the Emancipation Act. The authors exhaustive research unearthed hundreds of such individuals, and his astute analysis of their circumstances chronicles the increasingly adverse effects wrought by deep and inexorable shifts in the meanings of race and family.Children of Uncertain Fortunetells a quintessentially Atlantic world story of racist ideologies trumping kinship affinities, as its author points the way to exciting new directions for scholarly investigation.--Roderick A. McDonald, Rider University editor,Early American Studiesp Segoe UIIn this brilliant model of Atlantic history, Daniel Livesay gracefully brings to life the extraordinary, sometimes heartbreaking stories of mixed-race Caribbean people in Great Britain, revealing the long, complicated lines of family and belonging, race and alienation. This lucid and deeply researched book compellingly illuminates slavery, empire, and colonialism and their enduring impact on individuals, families, and nations.--Sarah M. S. Pearsall, University of Cambridgeh3 Segoe UIAbout the Authorp Segoe UIDaniel Livesay is assistant professor of history at Claremont McKenna College.

Author: Joe Pike File Type: epub As the clock struck 10 p.m. on Thursday 18 September 2014, polling stations across Scotland closed, signalling the end of two and a half bruising years of debate for the Yes and No campaigns. Dubbed Project Fear, the unique Better Together alliance was relieved as victory was secured and a weary and dejected Alex Salmond tendered his resignation. But the relief proved to be premature. Despite the defeat, the Scottish National Party grew in strength and gained unprecedented momentum, transforming its referendum failure into stunning general election success. The SNP went on to dominate the polls in Scotland, and the party s tsunami surge of support created a dynamic new force in Westminster. Now, Joe Pike delves deep into the nail-biting back-room operations of the referendums No campaign, examining the striking shift in Scottish political attitudes and its effect on the most unpredictable election in a generation. Based on over fifty private interviews with those at the heart of the action, this exclusive account explores what really went on behind closed doors as Better Together kept a kingdom united, but left a country divided.