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Daniel Livesay is associate professor of history at Claremont McKenna College. He is the author of Children of Uncertain Fortune: Mixed-Race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic Family, 1733-1833, and is currently finishing a book about elderly enslaved individuals in North America and the Caribbean.
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