How did Jamaica grow to become the "crown jewel" of the British Atlantic World?
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.
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 holder-ship in 17th and 18th-century Jamaica.
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