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| notable_works = ''[[Freedpeople in the Tobacco South, Virginia 1860-1900]]''<br> ''[[Rites of August First: Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World]]''<br> ''[[Rebellious Passage: The Creole Revolt and America's Coastal Slave Trade]]''
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'''Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie''' (born 1960), is a British historian and professor at [[Howard University]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://profiles.howard.edu/#/profile/43581/jeffrey-kerr-ritchie|title=People Profile &#124;|website=profiles.howard.edu}}</ref>
'''Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie''' (born 1960) is a British historian and professor at [[Howard University]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://profiles.howard.edu/#/profile/43581/jeffrey-kerr-ritchie|title=People Profile &#124;|website=profiles.howard.edu}}</ref>


== Education ==
== Education ==
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== Career ==
== Career ==
He has taught at [[Wesleyan University]], University of Pennsylvania, [[Columbia University]], Binghamton University, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro]]. He has been at Howard University since 2006.<ref name="auto"/>
He has taught at [[Wesleyan University]], University of Pennsylvania, [[Columbia University]], Binghamton University, and the [[University of North Carolina at Greensboro]]. He has been at Howard University since 2006.<ref name="auto"/>


== Awards ==
== Awards ==
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== Publications ==
== Publications ==
His first book, ''Freedpeople in the Tobacco South, Virginia 1860-1900'', expands the traditional periodization of US Reconstruction to argue for the making of a black peasantry as a consequence of transformations in the global tobacco economy.<ref>[Kerr-Ritchie, ''Freedpeople in the Tobacco South, Virginia 1860-1900,''], University of North Carolina Press, 1999,</ref> His second, ''Rites of August First: Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World'', examines commemorations of British colonial abolition and how these served as sites of anti-US slavery mobilization in the English-speaking Atlantic between the 1830s and 1860s.<ref>[Kerr-Ritchie, ''Rites of August First: Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World,''], Louisiana State University Press, 2007,https://lsupress.org/books/detail/rites-of-august-first/</ref> The third, ''Freedom’s Seekers: Essays on Comparative Emancipation,'' offers a broad transnational focus of experiences and lives challenging nation-centered histories that usually end up reifying exceptional narratives of emancipation. One “of the most informative and important books focusing on emancipations and the Atlantic world published in the last two decades,” concludes one reviewer.<ref>[Kerr-Ritchie, ''Freedom’s Seekers: Essays on Comparative Emancipation,''], Louisiana State University Press, 2014,https://lsupress.org/books/detail/freedoms-seekers/</ref> The fourth book, ''Rebellious Passage: The Creole Revolt and America’s Coastal Slave Trade'', provides the first scholarly examination of the US maritime slave trade and a successful slave ship revolt in 1841 with international ramifications. One reviewer describes it as the “definitive book on the revolt and a model for transatlantic scholarship in the age of abolition.”<ref>[Kerr-Ritchie, ''Rebellious Passage: The Creole Revolt and America’s Coastal Slave Trade,''], Cambridge University Press, 2019,https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/rebellious-passage/04285EE7E6F691153D43C3C0EC2BE400</ref>
His first book, ''Freedpeople in the Tobacco South, Virginia 1860-1900'', expands the traditional periodization of US Reconstruction to argue for the making of a black peasantry as a consequence of transformations in the global tobacco economy.{{cn|date=March 2024}} His second, ''Rites of August First: Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World'', examines commemorations of British colonial abolition and how these served as sites of anti-US slavery mobilization in the English-speaking Atlantic between the 1830s and 1860s.{{cn|date=March 2024}} The third, ''Freedom’s Seekers: Essays on Comparative Emancipation,'' offers a broad transnational focus of experiences and lives challenging nation-centered histories that usually end up reifying exceptional narratives of emancipation.{{cn|date=March 2024}} The fourth book, ''Rebellious Passage: The Creole Revolt and America’s Coastal Slave Trade'', provides the first scholarly examination of the US maritime slave trade and a successful slave ship revolt in 1841 with international ramifications.{{cn|date=March 2024}}


== Books ==
== Books ==
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* Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffery R., ''Freedom’s Seekers: Essays on Comparative Emancipation.'' Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 2014. {{ISBN|978-0-8071-5471-7}}
* Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffery R., ''Freedom’s Seekers: Essays on Comparative Emancipation.'' Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 2014. {{ISBN|978-0-8071-5471-7}}
* Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffery R., R''ebellious Passage: The Creole Revolt and America’s Coastal Slave Trade.'' New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. {{ISBN|978-1-108-70000-9}}
* Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffery R., R''ebellious Passage: The Creole Revolt and America’s Coastal Slave Trade.'' New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. {{ISBN|978-1-108-70000-9}}

==Personal life ==
Kerr-Ritchie is married to Elizabeth Lindquist;<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://whitehallantiques.com/|title=Antique Dealers &#124; Chapel Hill, NC - Whitehall Antiques|website=whitehallantiques.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.coldwellbanker.com/Coldwell-Banker-Advantage-11983c/ELIZABETH-LINDQUIST-461207a|title=ELIZABETH LINDQUIST of Coldwell Banker Advantage|website=www.coldwellbanker.com}}</ref> they have two children, and live in Durham, North Carolina


== References ==
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Latest revision as of 10:09, 7 November 2024

Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie
Born
Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie

1960
London, United Kingdom
OccupationHistorian

Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie (born 1960) is a British historian and professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C.[1]

Education

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Born in London, Kerr-Ritchie was educated at Kingston University in England, and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, United States.[1]

Career

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He has taught at Wesleyan University, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, Binghamton University, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has been at Howard University since 2006.[1]

Awards

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Kerr-Ritchie has been a Fellow at Fulbright-Hays UK, the Schomburg Center in New York, and the National Humanities Center in North Carolina.

Publications

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His first book, Freedpeople in the Tobacco South, Virginia 1860-1900, expands the traditional periodization of US Reconstruction to argue for the making of a black peasantry as a consequence of transformations in the global tobacco economy.[citation needed] His second, Rites of August First: Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World, examines commemorations of British colonial abolition and how these served as sites of anti-US slavery mobilization in the English-speaking Atlantic between the 1830s and 1860s.[citation needed] The third, Freedom’s Seekers: Essays on Comparative Emancipation, offers a broad transnational focus of experiences and lives challenging nation-centered histories that usually end up reifying exceptional narratives of emancipation.[citation needed] The fourth book, Rebellious Passage: The Creole Revolt and America’s Coastal Slave Trade, provides the first scholarly examination of the US maritime slave trade and a successful slave ship revolt in 1841 with international ramifications.[citation needed]

Books

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  • Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffery R., Freedpeople in the Tobacco South, Virginia 1860-1900. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8078-4763-1
  • Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffery R., Rites of August First: Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8071-3232-6
  • Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffery R., Freedom’s Seekers: Essays on Comparative Emancipation. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8071-5471-7
  • Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffery R., Rebellious Passage: The Creole Revolt and America’s Coastal Slave Trade. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. ISBN 978-1-108-70000-9

References

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  1. ^ a b c "People Profile |". profiles.howard.edu.