{"product_id":"heiresses-marriage-inheritance-and-slavery-in-the-caribbean-9781639368297","title":"Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance, and Slavery in the Caribbean","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom Jamaica to Charleston, Sierra Leone to India, Australia and back to England, this is the story of the heiresses--and the role they played in the history of enslavement.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, it was a fact universally acknowledged that any man in want of a great fortune ought to find himself a Caribbean heiress. Their assets, the product of the exploitation of enslaved African men, women, and children, enabled them to marry into the top tiers of the aristocracy and influence society and politics. They fell in love (not always with their husbands), eloped, divorced, squandered fortunes, commissioned art, threw parties, went mad and (in once case) faked a daughter's death. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn her much anticipated follow up to \u003ci\u003eBlack Tudors\u003c\/i\u003e, Miranda Kaufmann peers beneath our pastel-hued, Jane Austen inspired image of the Georgian heiress to reveal a murky world of inheritance, fortune-hunting and human exploitation. She also unearths the stories of the people the heiresses enslaved, whose labor funded their lifestyles with whom their fates were intimately intertwined. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeiresses \u003c\/i\u003eprovides a compelling and often shocking account of how Britain profited and continues to profit from enslavement. In the vein of landmark books such as \u003ci\u003eEmpireland\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNatives, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThey Were Her Property, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWhite Debt\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHeiresses\u003c\/i\u003e promises to expand and challenge our understanding of history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKaufmann, Miranda:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eMiranda Kaufmann \u003c\/b\u003eis a Senior Research Fellow at the University of London's Institute of Commonwealth Studies. Her first book, \u003ci\u003eBlack Tudors, \u003c\/i\u003ewas shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2018 and was \"A Book of the Year\" for the \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e. She has appeared on Sky News, the BBC and Al Jazeera, and she's written for \u003ci\u003eThe Times, Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e and BBC \u003ci\u003eHistory\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine. She lives in North Wales.","brand":"Pegasus Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51635532005650,"sku":"9781639368297","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3ab12de0-b67b-48ba-8897-7e76ad61885a.jpg?v=1759241296","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/heiresses-marriage-inheritance-and-slavery-in-the-caribbean-9781639368297","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}