Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire by Christine Walker

Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire

Christine Walker

336 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

business history challenging informative medium-paced
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Jamaica Ladies is the first systematic study of the free and freed women of European, Euro-African, and African descent who perpetuated chattel slavery and reaped its profits in the British Empire. Their actions helped transform Jamaica into the w...

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