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Freedom's Seekers: Essays On Comparative Emancipation, Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie
Freedom's Seekers: Essays On Comparative Emancipation, Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie
Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie
Jeffery R. Kerr-Ritchie’s Freedom’s Seekers offers a bold and innovative intervention into the study of emancipation as a transnational phe-nomenon and serves as an important contribution to our understanding of the remaking of the nineteenth-century Atlantic Americas.
Drawing on decades of research into slave and emancipation societies, Kerr-Ritchie is attentive to those who sought but were not granted freedom, and those who resisted enslavement individually as well as collectively on behalf of their communities. He explores the many roles that fugitive slaves, slave soldiers, and slave rebels played in their own societies. He likewise explicates the lives of …
Rites Of August First: Emancipation Day In The Black Atlantic World, Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie
Rites Of August First: Emancipation Day In The Black Atlantic World, Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie
Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie
Thirty years before Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, the antislavery movement won its first victory in the British Parliament. On August 1, 1834, the Abolition of Slavery Bill took effect, ending colonial slavery throughout the British Empire. Over the next three decades, "August First Day," also known as "West India Day" and "Emancipation Day," became the most important annual celebration of emancipation among people of African descent in the northern United States, the British Caribbean, Canada West, and the United Kingdom and played a critical role in popular mobilization against American slavery. In Rites of August First, J. R. KerrRitchie …