by Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie
Jeffrey 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 individual freedmen, freedwomen, and freed children to
show how the first free-born generation helped to shape the terms and
conditions of the post-slavery world.
Freedom's Seekers is a signal contribution to African Diaspora studies,
especially in its rigorous respect for the agency of those who sought and then
fought for their freedom, and its consistent attention to the transnational
dimensions of emancipation.
About the Author
Jeffrey R.
Kerr-Ritchie, associate professor of history at Howard University, is the
author of Rites of August First: Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World
and Freedpeople in the Tobacco South: Virginia, 1860 1900.
ISBN 978-0807154717, Louisiana State University Press, © 2014,
Hardcover, 272 Pages, Maps, End Notes, Bibliography & Index. $39.95. To
Purchase the book click HERE.
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