TY - BOOK AU - Kerr-Ritchie,Jeffrey R. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Rites of August First: Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic world T2 - Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world AV - HT1031 .K47 2007eb U1 - 326/.8 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Baton Rouge PB - Louisiana State University Press KW - Emancipation Day (British West Indies) KW - Slaves KW - Emancipation KW - West Indies, British KW - Ontario KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10297288 ER -