Mother Brownrigg;

Mother Brownrigg;
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1820
Genre: Chapbooks, English
ISBN:

Elizabeth Brownrigg (1720-1767) was an eighteenth century murderer. Her victim, Mary Clifford, was one of her foundling domestic servants, who died from cumulative injuries and associated infected wounds. As a result of witness testimony and medical evidence at her trial, Brownrigg was hanged at Tyburn in September 1767.

Tyburn Tree

Tyburn Tree
Author: Alfred Marks
Publisher:
Total Pages: 358
Release: 1908
Genre: Capital punishment
ISBN:

Children of Uncertain Fortune

Children of Uncertain Fortune
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.