Persons outside the Law
Catherine Hall: The Atlantic Family, 19 July 2018
Children of Uncertain Fortune: Mixed-race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic Family, 1733-1833
by Daniel Livesay.
North Carolina, 448 pp., £45, January 2018,978 1 4696 3443 2 Show More
by Daniel Livesay.
North Carolina, 448 pp., £45, January 2018,
“... of mixed heritage – mainly white fathers and ‘mulatto’ or enslaved black mothers – whom Daniel Livesay has tracked in their journeys from Jamaica to Britain between 1733 and 1833. Their stories illuminate the long history of connection between Britain and the Caribbean caught in that evocative phrase: ‘we are here because you were ... ”
