Jamaica Ladies Marla Frederick-McGlathery and others-to show how they

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From the wily--and some say dangerous--jackalope to the world's largest mammoth grave

Jamaica Ladies Marla Frederick-McGlathery and others-to show how theyJamaica Ladies is the first systematic study of the free and freed women of European, Euro African, and African descent who perpetuated chattel slavery and reaped its profits in the British Empire. Their actions helped transform Jamaica into the wealthiest slaveholding colony in the Anglo Atlantic world. Starting in the 1670s, a surprisingly large and diverse group of women helped secure English control of Jamaica and, crucially, aided its developing