A Parcel Of Ribbons Letters Of The 18th Century Lee Family In London And Jamaica
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| Author | : Anne M Powers |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 375 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1105809749 |
Set among the sugar plantations of Jamaica and the balls and masquerades of Georgian London the story is told by the Lee family in their own words. In 1749 thirteen year-old Robert Cooper Lee sailed to Jamaica taking a parcel of ribbons for sale. When his family was left all but penniless, Robert and his brothers forged new lives in Jamaica, fathered children with women who were the descendants of slaves and supported their sister left behind in England. Robert returned to London with his family in 1771. A prominent attorney, respected throughout Jamaica and among the West Indian lobby in London, he had built a fortune that enabled his children to mix with royalty. This remarkable collection of letters tells a story of triumph against adversity, of a family that suffered sickness, bankruptcy, sudden death, a clandestine marriage and an elopement. Through it all the bonds of family endured.
| Author | : Brooke N. Newman |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2018-08-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 030024097X |
A major reassessment of the development of race and subjecthood in the British Atlantic Focusing on Jamaica, Britain’s most valuable colony in the Americas by the mid-eighteenth century, Brooke Newman explores the relationship between racial classifications and the inherited rights and privileges associated with British subject status. Weaving together a diverse range of sources, she shows how colonial racial ideologies rooted in fictions of blood ancestry at once justified permanent, hereditary slavery for Africans and barred members of certain marginalized groups from laying claim to British liberties on the basis of hereditary status.
| Author | : April G. Shelford |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 405 |
| Release | : 2023-09-30 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1009360795 |
Explores the intersection of Enlightenment ideas and colonial realities amongst White, male colonists in the eighteenth-century French and British Caribbean. For them, becoming 'enlightened' meant diversion, status seeking, satisfying curiosity about the tropical environment, and making sense of the brutal societies and the enslaved Africans.
| Author | : Daniel Livesay |
| Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
| Total Pages | : 432 |
| Release | : 2018-01-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1469634449 |
By tracing the largely forgotten eighteenth-century migration of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to Great Britain, Children of Uncertain Fortune reinterprets 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. The 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 Britain's 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.
| Author | : Gouverneur Morris |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 690 |
| Release | : 1888 |
| Genre | : France |
| ISBN | : |
A biography of Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816) by his granddaughter, making extensive use of his letters and diary.
| Author | : Ben Marsh |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 503 |
| Release | : 2020-04-23 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1108418287 |
Reveals how commodity failure, as much as success, can shed light on aspirations, environment, and economic life in colonial societies.
| Author | : Zachary Macaulay |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 544 |
| Release | : 1900 |
| Genre | : Slave trade |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Benjamin Franklin |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 666 |
| Release | : 1840 |
| Genre | : United States |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Sir James Edward Alexander |
| Publisher | : Philadelphia : Key and Biddle |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 1833 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Brian Eno |
| Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
| Total Pages | : 382 |
| Release | : 2020-11-17 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0571364624 |
The diary and essays of Brian Eno republished twenty-five years on with a new introduction by the artist in a beautiful hardback edition.'One of the seminal books about music . . . an invaluable insight into the mind and working practices of one of the industry's undeniable geniuses.'GUARDIANAt the end of 1994, Brian Eno resolved to keep a diary. His plans to go to the cinema, theatre and galleries fell quickly to the wayside. What he did do - and write - however, was astonishing: ruminations on his collaborative work with David Bowie, U2, James and Jah Wobble, interspersed with correspondence and essays dating back to 1978. These 'appendices' covered topics from the generative and ambient music Eno pioneered to what he believed the role of an artist and their art to be, alongside adroit commentary on quotidian tribulations and happenings around the world.This beautiful 25th-anniversary hardcover edition has been redesigned in the same size as the diary that eventually became this book. It features two ribbons, pink paper delineating the appendices (matching the original edition) and a two-tone paper-over-board cover, which pays homage to the original design.An intimate insight into one of the most influential creative artists of our time, A Year with Swollen Appendices is an essential classic.
