People of Mixed Ancestry in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake: Freedom, Bondage, and the Rise of Hypodescent Ideology

Authors

Aaron Wilkinson, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-17-2017

Publication Title

Journal of Social History

Abstract

This article examines the origins of mixed-race ideologies and people of mixed African, European, and Native American ancestry—commonly identified as mulattoes—in the seventeenth-century English colonial Chesapeake and wider Atlantic world.

Language

eng

Repository Citation

Wilkinson, A. (2017). People of Mixed Ancestry in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake: Freedom, Bondage, and the Rise of Hypodescent Ideology. Journal of Social History
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shx113