Rites of August First : Emancipation Day in

This exciting new study examines the role of British Abolition celebrations in the mobilization against American slavery in the Atlantic world between 1830 and 1860. Kerr-Ritchie's argument is constructed through an analysis of social, political, and cultural history. It offers the first major examination of an important black institution and contributes greatly to scholarship concerned with the need to think, write, and research in hemispheric, cross-national, and international ways. Kerr-Ritchie demonstrates how culture and community were and can be political.

J. R. Kerr-Ritchie is an associate professor of history at Howard University in Washington, D.C.

Introduction : transnational emancipation day	p. 1
August First in the British West Indies	p. 13
West Indian emancipation and the American antislavery picnic	p. 49
August First in Afro-America	p. 82
Black loyalists in Canada West	p. 118
Fugitive slaves in Canada West	p. 144
Rehearsal for war : black militias in the Atlantic world	p. 164
Emancipation in pan-African perspective	p. 193
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Rites of August First : Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World

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