Bibliograph

Rites of August First, Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic world, J.R. Kerr-Ritchie

Type

Label

Rites of August First, Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic world, J.R. Kerr-Ritchie

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Rites of August First

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

70884933

Responsibility statement

J.R. Kerr-Ritchie

Series statement

Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world

Sub title

Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic world

Table Of 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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