Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie

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Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie
Born	Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie 1960 London, United Kingdom
Occupation(s)	Historian, Writer, Educator
Notable work	Freedpeople in the Tobacco South, Virginia 1860-1900 Rites of August First: Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World Rebellious Passage: The Creole Revolt and America's Coastal Slave Trade
Spouse	Elizabeth Lindquist
Children	Nelson and Alexander

Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie (1960), is a professional historian who works at Howard University in Washington DC.

Education

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

Career

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

Awards

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

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 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. 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. 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.”

Personal Life

Kerr-Ritchie is married to Elizabeth Lindquist, an antiques business owner at Whitehall Antiques in Chapel Hill, NC, and a licensed real estate agent. They have two children, Nelson and Alexander, and live in Durham, North Carolina

Further Readings

• 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

External links

• Quotations related to Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie at Wikiquote
• Media related to Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie at Wikimedia Commons
• Howard University Faculty Page

Category:1960 births Category:20th-century British historians Category:21st-century British historians Category:20th-century male writers Category:21st-century male writers Category:African diaspora literature Category:Alumni of Kingston University, England Category:Alumni of University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States Category:Fulbright-Hays Fellow Category:Anti-racism activists Category:Black British writers Category:British pan-Africanists Category:Historians of the African Diaspora Category:Historians of the Caribbean Category:Historians of Atlantic World Category:Historians of slavery