Rites of August First : Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic world / J.R. Kerr-Ritchie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffrey R.

Series:

Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emancipation Day (British West Indies).

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--West Indies, British.

Enslaved persons.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Ontario.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--British colonies.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--French colonies.

Ontario.

Physical Description:

xix, 272 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2007]

Summary:

This exciting new study examines the role of British Abolition celebrations in the mobilization against American slavery in the Atlantic world between 1830 and 1860. Kerr-Ritchie's argument is constructed through an analysis of social, political, and cultural history. It offers the first major examination of an important black institution and contributes greatly to scholarship concerned with the need to think, write, and research in hemispheric, cross-national, and international ways. Kerr-Ritchie demonstrates how culture and community were and can be political.

Contents:

Introduction: Transnational Emancipation day

August First in the British West Indies

West Indian emancipation and the American antislavery picnic

August First in Afro-America

Black loyalists in Canada West

Fugitive slaves in Canada West

Rehearsal for war: Black militias in the Atlantic world

Emancipation in Pan-African perspective.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-263) and index.

ISBN:

0807132322

9780807132326

OCLC:

70884933