Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance, and Slavery in the Caribbean

From Jamaica to Charleston, Sierra Leone to India, Australia and back to England, this is the story...
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Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance, and Slavery in the Caribbean by Kaufmann, Miranda

Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance, and Slavery in the Caribbean

$53.92

Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance, and Slavery in the Caribbean

$53.92
Author: Miranda Kaufmann
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
From 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.

Through 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.

In her much anticipated follow up to Black Tudors, 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.

Heiresses provides a compelling and often shocking account of how Britain profited and continues to profit from enslavement. In the vein of landmark books such as Empireland, Natives, They Were Her Property, and White Debt, Heiresses promises to expand and challenge our understanding of history.

Author: Miranda Kaufmann
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 10/07/2025
Pages: 544
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9781639368297


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2025
Library Journal 07/18/2025 pg. 1
Publishers Weekly 08/11/2025
Booklist 09/01/2025

About the Author
Kaufmann, Miranda: - Miranda Kaufmann is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of London's Institute of Commonwealth Studies. Her first book, Black Tudors, was shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2018 and was "A Book of the Year" for the Evening Standard and the Observer. She has appeared on Sky News, the BBC and Al Jazeera, and she's written for The Times, Guardian and BBC History Magazine. She lives in North Wales.

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