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This article interrogates the question of class differences among whites in Jamaica at the height of plantation slavery in the eighteenth century. It examines the differences between lesser-white, socially mobile settlers and the upper plantocracy by considering not only “relations of production” but also “relations of reproduction” or what I call “genealogical capital.”

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This page is a summary of: Hierarchies of whiteness in the geographies of empire: Thomas Thistlewood and the Barrets of Jamaica, New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, January 2008, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/13822373-90002486.
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