Freedom’s Seekers: Essays on Comparative Emancipation (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World)

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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 crucial contribution to our working out 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 that sought but were not granted freedom, and people who resisted enslavement in my opinion in addition to collectively on behalf in their communities. He explores the many roles that fugitive slaves, slave soldiers, and slave rebels played in their very 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.
Freedom’s Seekers is a signal contribution to African Diaspora studies, especially in its rigorous respect for the agency of folks that sought after which fought for their freedom, and its consistent attention to the transnational dimensions of emancipation.

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