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The story is told through a series of letters written by the heroine Olivia Fairfield to her former governess, Mrs. Milbanke, in Jamaica. Olivia is the mixed-race illegitimate daughter of an English plantation-owner, Mr. Fairfield, and his slave Marcia, who died in childbirth.
Free Women of Color with their Children and Servants, oil painting by Agostino Brunias, Dominica, c. 1764–1796.. In the context of the history of slavery in the Americas, free people of color (French: gens de couleur libres; Spanish: gente de color libre) were primarily people of mixed African, European, and Native American descent who were not enslaved.
[6] In The New York Times Book Review, critic and future U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky wrote, "In a cunningly straightforward way, Patrimony tells one of the central true stories many Americans share nowadays: the agonized, sometimes comic labor of a family and a dying parent who must deal with all the loyalties and grudges of their past ...
The ecclesiastical law says again that no son is to have the patrimony but the eldest born to the father by the married wife. The law of Howel, however, adjudges it to the younger son as well as to the oldest, and decides that the sin of the father, or his illegal act, is not to be brought against the son as to lus patrimony.
Matrimonial regimes, or marital property systems, are systems of property ownership between spouses providing for the creation or absence of a marital estate and if created, what properties are included in that estate, how and by whom it is managed, and how it will be divided and inherited at the end of the marriage.
The group decided that they would publish books aimed at promoting the writing of women of color of all racial/ethnic heritages, national origins, ages, socioeconomic classes, and sexual orientations. The target audience of the press was "not solely women of color or lesbians of color, but the entire gamut of our communities."
Family patrimony is a type of civil law patrimony that is created by marriage or civil union (where recognized) which creates a bundle of entitlements and obligations that must be shared by the spouses or partners upon divorce, annulment, dissolution of marriage or dissolution of civil union, when there must be a division of property.
For many women of the gentry, marriage was essential to secure financial stability. [note 2] Unmarried women, especially widows, faced a challenging reality. [9] Upon the death of their father, their resources were limited. They might find work as a governess or teacher if qualified, but these roles were often seen as subordinate and difficult ...