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'Rioting in goatish embraces': marriage and improvement in early British Jamaica
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posted on 2023-06-08, 07:09 authored by Trevor BurnardMarriages were relatively infrequent among the white population of early British Jamaica. This article examines the ideological implications of the failure of whites to marry with sufficient regularity to ensure that white population increase would allow Jamaica to become a settler society on the British North American model. It looks, in particular, at the tendency of whites to live in irregular unions, either with other whites or with black or brown concubines, and the effect that such arrangements had on perceptions of white Jamaicans as especially immoral. It connects these views with other discourses on settler societies in which improvement and frequent marriage were linked.
History
Publication status
- Published
Journal
History of the FamilyISSN
1081-602XPublisher
ElsevierExternal DOI
Issue
4Volume
11Page range
185-197Department affiliated with
- American Studies Publications
Full text available
- No
Peer reviewed?
- Yes