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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''' (1960) |
'''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 ||website=profiles.howard.edu}}</ref> |
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== 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.<ref |
Born in London, Kerr-Ritchie was educated at [[Kingston University]] in England, and the [[University of Pennsylvania]] in Philadelphia, United States.<ref name="auto"/> |
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== Career == |
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He has taught at Wesleyan University, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, Binghamton University, and the University of |
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"/> |
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== 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. |
Kerr-Ritchie has been a Fellow at Fulbright-Hays UK, the Schomburg Center in New York, and the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. |
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== 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. |
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}} |
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He has delivered more than one hundred talks internationally in the Commonwealth |
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of Bahamas, Barbados, Canada, Curacao, Egypt, England, Germany, the Republic of Ireland, |
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Jamaica, Martinique, the Kingdom of Netherlands, the Peoples Republic of China, the |
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Republic of Cuba, the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago, the United States, Wales, and the |
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Socialist Republic of Vietnam. |
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=== Personal Life === |
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Kerr-Ritchie is married to Elizabeth Lindquist, an antiques business owner at Whitehall Antiques in Chapel Hill, NC, and a licensed real estate agent. <ref>https://whitehallantiques.com</ref><ref>https://www.coldwellbanker.com/Coldwell-Banker-Advantage-11983c/ELIZABETH-LINDQUIST-461207a</ref>They have two children, Nelson and Alexander, and live in Durham, North Carolina. The study of history, he thinks, is an argument without end, and that it should help change the world. He believes that teaching is an honorable profession. He has worked with and supported numerous radical political causes over the decades. He was a former karate fighter for seven years, and represented England. |
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==Further Readings== |
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* [https://profiles.howard.edu/profile/43581/jeffrey-kerr-ritchie Howard University Faculty Page] |
* [https://profiles.howard.edu/profile/43581/jeffrey-kerr-ritchie Howard University Faculty Page] |
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* [https://whitehallantiques.com WhiteHall Antiques Website] |
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| Born | Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie 1960 London, United Kingdom |
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Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie (born 1960) is a British historian and professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C.[1]
Education
[edit]Born in London, Kerr-Ritchie was educated at Kingston University in England, and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, United States.[1]
Career
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ a b c "People Profile |". profiles.howard.edu.
Quotations related to Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie at Wikiquote- Howard University Faculty Page
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