Dark Inheritance

Dark Inheritance
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.

Religious Conscience, the State, and the Law

Religious Conscience, the State, and the Law
Author: John McLaren
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780791440025

Examines claims to freedom of religion by minority, unorthodox faith groups and how these challenges to the state and the law have contributed to the development of civil rights discourse and practice.