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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : was U.S. emancipation exceptional?
  • Self-emancipators across North America
  • Slave soldiers
  • Slave revolt across borders
  • Samuel Ward and the making of an imperial subject
  • Freedwomen and freed children
  • Freedom's first generation
  • Epilogue : freedom's seekers today.

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