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

1960
Occupation(s)Historian, Writer, Educator
Notable workFreedpeople 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
SpouseElizabeth Lindquist
ChildrenNelson and Alexander

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

Education

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

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.[1]

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.[2] 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.[3] 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.[4] 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.”[5]

Books

  • 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

Personal life

Kerr-Ritchie is married to Elizabeth Lindquist;[6][7] they have two children, and live in Durham, North Carolina

References

  1. 1 2 3 "People Profile |". profiles.howard.edu.
  2. [Kerr-Ritchie, Freedpeople in the Tobacco South, Virginia 1860-1900,], University of North Carolina Press, 1999,
  3. [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/
  4. [Kerr-Ritchie, Freedom’s Seekers: Essays on Comparative Emancipation,], Louisiana State University Press, 2014,https://lsupress.org/books/detail/freedoms-seekers/
  5. [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
  6. "Antique Dealers | Chapel Hill, NC - Whitehall Antiques". whitehallantiques.com.
  7. "ELIZABETH LINDQUIST of Coldwell Banker Advantage". www.coldwellbanker.com.
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