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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic worldPublication details: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2007.Description: xix, 272 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 326/.8 22
LOC classification:
  • HT1031 .K47 2007eb
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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