Freedom's Seekers : Essays on Comparative Emancipation /

"Jeffery R. Kerr-Ritchie's Freedom's Seekers offers a bold and innovative intervention into the study of emancipation as a transnational phenomenon and serves as an important contribution to our understanding of the remaking of the nineteenth-century Atlantic Americas. Drawing on deca...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffrey R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sklaverei
Emanzipation
Abolitionismus
Slaves > Emancipation.
Antislavery movements.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > États-Unis > Histoire.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > Amerique > Histoire.
Esclaves > Affranchissement > Amerique > Histoire.
Antislavery movements > United States > History.
Antislavery movements > America > History.
Slaves > Emancipation > United States > History.
Slaves > Emancipation > America > History.
Amerika
United States.
America.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"Jeffery R. Kerr-Ritchie's Freedom's Seekers offers a bold and innovative intervention into the study of emancipation as a transnational phenomenon 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 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."--Publisher's description.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (272 pages): maps ;
ISBN:9780807154724

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