Professor John McCurdy
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They set up a stockade.
These women are placed in huts with a barricade, a stockade around it, primarily for these British soldiers to come and use.
They even acquire a name.
They're known as the Jackson Whites or the Jackson Blacks, depending on which race of woman you desired.
And then to your question, to your point, what happens at the end of the war?
Because this happens sometimes.
The British occupy New York City from 1776 until they finally withdraw at the end of the war in 1783.
So I'm not sure exactly when they arrive, but when the British withdraw at the end of 1783, there are these women left and the British have no intention to helping them transition to peacetime or find other work or certainly they're not going to help them go home.
So these women find themselves driven out of the city because, of course, the New Yorkers don't want them there.
And so they're driven out of the city along with other maybe British deserters.
They're driven mostly north of the city.
And as the story goes, that both black and white will leave the city and go up into the Ramapo Mountains, which is north of New York, up into New Jersey and southern New York state.
And they become a population.
Apparently, Jackson whites is a term that as late as the 20th century is a reference to this mixed race group of people who are driven out of the city, who are these descendants of these prostitutes, these sex workers from revolutionary New York.
Well, you know, many times in this in this time period, many times you would be either enticed onto a ship or forced onto a ship.
I mean, being Shanghai is, you know, or being Barbados, as they would call it.
Right.
You're just being sort of captured.
So I don't know how much agency I assume very little women have.
Yeah.
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