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
individually as well as collectively on behalf of their
communities. He explores the many roles that fugitive slaves, slave
soldiers, and slave rebels played in their own societies. He
likewise explicates the lives of individual freedmen, freedwomen,
and freed children to show how the first free-born generation
helped to shape the terms and conditions of the post-slavery
world.
Freedom's Seekers is a signal contribution to African Diaspora
studies, especially in its rigorous respect for the agency of those
who sought and then fought for their freedom, and its consistent
attention to the transnational dimensions of emancipation.
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