Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance, and Slavery in the Caribbean Gayle Forman Born into a world on

Born into a world on fire and at war

After she overhears her latest date say she is “so unbelievably boring

But hope is not lost

As she puts it

so there’s something for all children’s interests

Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance, and Slavery in the Caribbean Gayle Forman Born into a world onFrom Jamaica to Charleston, Sierra Leone to India, Australia and back to England, this is the story of the heiressesand 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