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Freedom's Seekers: Essays on Comparative Emancipation

Freedom's Seekers: Essays on Comparative Emancipation

Hardcover

Series: Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World

African HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesRegional: South

ISBN10: 0807154717
ISBN13: 9780807154717
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Apr 16 2014
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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.

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