Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and ... and the University of North Carolina Press)

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Many women, including women of color, benefitted from slavery and played significant roles in the development of a lucrative and exploitative British colonial world. Donaldson was introduced to the national women’s programme on the recommendation of the ambassador for Jamaican women’s football Cedella Marley in 2014, along with previous head coach Hue Menzies and the two guided the Reggae Girlz to their historic qualification in 2019. From the latest football kits to retro shirts and personalized kits from all your favourite football clubs, you’re sure to find the perfect piece of gear to show your team spirit here on Kitbag. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.

The past two decades have seen the publication of several path-breaking histories of women on both sides of racial slavery’s oppression. Matthew J Smith, Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain’s Atlantic Empire, by Christine Walker, The English Historical Review, Volume 137, Issue 588, October 2022, Pages 1537–1539, https://doi. The first systematic study of free and freed “handmaidens of empire” born in Britain, Africa, and Jamaica, Jamaica Ladies is a richly detailed monograph that seeks to rectify the historiographical lacuna that leaves women’s roles in British Atlantic slavery underexamined (p. Female slaveholders wielded novel and significant legal, social, economic, and cultural authority, which they enacted inside and outside the household" (9).At the 2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship, Jamaica was drawn into Group B alongside Canada, Costa Rica and Cuba. Part of the answer is that Jamaica’s women served as some of the most ardent and best supporters of the island’s practice of slavery. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. From the beginning of British control of Jamaica, men and women flocked to the island in the hopes of gaining wealth.

Jamaica Ladies makes an impressive and innovative contribution to our understanding of the gendering of colonial society.Williamsburg: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.