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Jeffrey R. Kerr Ritchie
Jeffrey R. Kerr Ritchie

Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie, Associate Professor of History, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania 1993, Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie is an associate professor of history at Howard University. He received a B.A. in history from Kingston Polytechnic in England and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania. He has received fellowships from the Gilder Lehrman Center, the National Humanities Center, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Virginia Historical Society. He has published scholarly articles in The Journal of African American History, Nature, Society, and Thought, Slavery and Abolition, and Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, as well as contributed several book chapters. He has authored Freedpeople in the Tobacco South: Virginia, 1860 to 1900 (University of North Carolina Press, 1999), Rites of August First: Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World (Louisiana State University Press, 2007), and an electronic anthology African American Social Movements (ProQuest, 2005). His current projects include Freedom’s Seekers: Essays in Comparative Emancipation, August Address: An Anthology of West Indies Emancipation Day Speeches, and a popular history of emancipation.

  • Freedpeople in the Tobacco South

    October 20, 2012

    http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1911480 Freedpeople in the Tobacco South: Virginia, 1860-1900 by Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie Throughout the colonial and antebellum…

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