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First Name
Christine
Last Name
Walker
Country
Singapore
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Affiliation
Yale-NUS College
Website URL
www.yale-nus.edu.sg/about/faculty/christine-walker/
Keywords
Atlantic World, Caribbean, British Empire, Jamaica, slavery, women, gender, sexuality, family, colonialism, female slave owners, trade, legal history, colonialism, imperialism
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About Me

I am an Assistant Professor in early American/Atlantic World history at Yale-NUS College. My book, Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain’s Atlantic Empire, examines the crucial roles played by free and freed women of European and African descent in transforming Jamaica into the wealthiest and the largest slaveholding colony in British America (The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press, 2020). Jamaica Ladies investigates the economic, legal, social, and sexual dimensions of women’s lives, showing how the expansion of slavery altered customary gender roles and reconfigured families. My work also explores the ways that people negotiated the boundaries between enslavement and freedom on a daily basis.

Recent Publications
Book:

Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain’s Atlantic Empire (Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press, June 2020)

Articles:

  • “As Though She “was a virtuous woman”: Remaking Gender Roles, Marital Relations, and Families in Atlantic Jamaica,”Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History (forthcoming August 2020).

  • “In Her Own Right: Gender, Slaveholding, and Movable Goods in Colonial Jamaica,” Movable Goods andImmovable Property. Gender, Law and Material Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1450‒1850, ed. Annette Cremer (Routledge, forthcoming July 2020)

  • “Womanly Masters: Gendering Slave Ownership in Colonial Jamaica,” Women in Early America: Transnational Histories, Rethinking Master Narratives, ed. Thomas Foster (New York: NYU Press, 2015) 160-181
  • “Pursuing her Profits: Women in Jamaica, Atlantic Slavery and a Globalising Market, 1700–60,” Gender & History 26, no. 3 (November 2014): 478-501
  • “Female Slave Owners,” Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History, ed. Trevor Burnard, Oxford University Press (http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com, 2015) (September 2019)

  • “Gender in the Caribbean,” Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History, ed. Trevor Burnard, Oxford University Press, (http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com, 2015) (April 2016)
Media Coverage
Country Focus
Caribbean, Atlantic World, British Empire
Expertise by Geography
Atlantic, British Isles, England, United Kingdom, United States
Expertise by Chronology
17th century, 18th century, Early Modern
Expertise by Topic
American Revolution, Capitalism, Colonialism, Economic History, Emancipation, Family, Gender, Law, Race, Sexuality, Sexual Violence, Slavery, Women