ISBN:
0807154725
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9780807154724
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (256 pages)
Series Statement:
Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffrey R . Freedom's Seekers : Essays on Comparative Emancipation
DDC:
306.362097
Keywords:
Geschichte 1800-1900
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Antislavery movements / America / History
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Antislavery movements / United States / History
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Slaves / Emancipation / America / History
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Slaves / Emancipation / United States / History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
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Antislavery movements
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Slaves / Emancipation
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Geschichte
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Slaves Emancipation
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History
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Slaves Emancipation
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History
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Antislavery movements History
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Antislavery movements History
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Abolitionismus
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Emanzipation
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Sklaverei
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Amerika
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USA
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Amerika
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Amerika
;
Sklaverei
;
Emanzipation
;
Abolitionismus
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Geschichte 1800-1900
Description / Table of Contents:
COVER; CONTENTS; PREFACE; NOTE ON LANGUAGE; CHRONOLOGY; INTRODUCTION: Was U.S. Emancipation Exceptional?; PART ONE: EXPERIENCES; CHAPTER 1. Self-Emancipators across North America; CHAPTER 2. Slave Soldiers; CHAPTER 3. Slave Revolt across Borders; PART TWO: LIVES; CHAPTER 4. Samuel Ward and the Making of an Imperial Subject; CHAPTER 5. Freedwomen and Freed Children; CHAPTER 6. Freedom's First Generation; EPILOGUE: Freedom's Seekers Today; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.
Description / Table of Contents:
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 sl
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