Dr. Erin Trahey, "Power Ever Follows Property: Sugar Heiresses and the Devises Act of 1761" - 2/12/22
In this episode, Dr. Erin Trahey, Assistant Professor of Early American History at Cambridge, discusses a chapter from her upcoming book project, Free Women of Jamaica: Property, Race and Power in Jamaican Slave Society 1760-1834, entitled: "Power Ever Follows Property: Sugar Heiresses and the Devises Act of 1761." Take a dive into the racial, gender, and class hierarchies of colonial Jamaica with Dr. Trahey, and PhD students Shea Hendry and Hugh Wood.