A study of the lived history of nineteenth-century British imperialism through the lives of one extended family in North America, the Caribbean and the United Kingdom.
Adele Perry traces their family and friends over the.
In the North American fur trade, he married Amelia Connolly, the daughter of a Cree mother and an Irish-Canadian father.
The prominent Colonial governor James Douglas was born in 1803 in what is now Guyana, probably to a free woman of colour and an itinerant Scottish father.
A study of the lived history of nineteenth-century British imperialism through the lives of one extended family in North America, the Caribbean and the United Kingdom