Freedom's Seekers: Essays on Comparative Emancipation

by Jeffrey R Kerr-Ritchie and Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807154717
• ISBN13: 9780807154717
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"