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Freedom's seekers

Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffrey R.

Freedom's seekers essays on comparative emancipation / [electronic resource] : Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie. - Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (272 p.) - Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : was U.S. emancipation exceptional? -- Self-emancipators across North America -- Slave soldiers -- Slave revolt across borders -- Samuel Ward and the making of an imperial subject -- Freedwomen and freed children -- Freedom's first generation -- Epilogue : freedom's seekers today.

9780807154724 0807154725


Antislavery movements--History.--United States
Antislavery movements--History.--America
Slaves--Emancipation--History.--United States
Slaves--Emancipation--History.--America


Electronic books.

HT1050 / .K47 2013

306.3/62097