Rites of August First Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic world /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffrey R.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2007.
Series:Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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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.