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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Starting in the 1670s, a surprisingly large and diverse group of women helped secure English control of Jamaica and, crucially, aided its developing and expanding slave labour regime by acquiring enslaved men, women, and children to protect their own tenuous claims to status and independence. Focusing on free and freed 'handmaidens of empire,' it reveals a world in which women cemented slavery at the heart of colonial economies and societies.

My first book, Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire (University of North Carolina Press, 2020), is the first systematic study of the free and freed women who perpetuated chattel slavery and reaped its profits in the early modern era. Since then, they have become one of the top teams in the region, and currently boast their second highest ever Fifa ranking at 43.

Much of this work has been on African and creole women, a large constituency given greater context by Walker’s examination of free and freed women in Jamaica who became slave-owners. Standard greetings cards are 10 x 15cm (4 x 6 inches); our larger cards are 15 x 21cm (6 x 8 inches). With the destruction of Port Royal by an earthquake and fire in 1692, Kingston–the subject of chapter 2–became central to Jamaica's growth as the most valuable of Britain's American colonies. They are one of the top women's national football teams in the Caribbean region along with Trinidad and Tobago and Haiti. Christine Walker, an Assistant Professor of History at the Yale-NUS College in Singapore and the author of the award-winning book, Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain’s Atlantic Empire, leads us on an investigation of female slave holdership in 17th and 18th-century Jamaica.

That number includes the five England-born players – Rebecca Spencer, Vyan Sampson, Atlanta Primus, Drew Spence and Paige Bailey-Gayle. This article is part of the Guardian’s Women’s World Cup 2023 Experts’ Network, a cooperation between some of the best media organisations from the 32 countries who qualified. During our investigation, Christine reveals how England came to possess and colonize Jamaica; Why the voices and lives of women and people of color must be uncovered and recovered to understand how the British Atlantic Empire came to be; And, information about the lives and deeds of Jamaica’s female slaveholders. In July last year, he replaced Vinimore “Vin” Blaine at the helm, a few weeks ahead of the crucial Concacaf Championship, after the players released a letter expressing dissatisfaction with Blaine’s leadership. In 2010, due to lack of funding, the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) cut the senior women’s program as well as the women’s Olympic program.For librarians and administrators, your personal account also provides access to institutional account management. Walker shows that such divergences had to do with more than just questions of propriety; they were also about property. Our expertise and use of high-quality materials means that our print colours are independently verified to last between 100 and 200 years. Chapter 4 challenges this view with its discussion of equity—an alternative set of procedures to common law that were designed to shield individual property rights—and marriage settlements. Port Royal, and Jamaica, began to flourish because female colonists, [End Page 217] like their male counterparts, took part in the subjugation of Black people for economic advancement.