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Slaves’ Supplicant & Slaves’ Triumphant: The Middle Passage of an Abolitionist Icon
No full textIn chapter 11, Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie’s “Slaves Supplicant and Slaves Triumphant: The Middle Passage of an Abolitionist Icon” proposes an alternative dialectic between the kneeling slave image and postabolition representations of former slaves at various times and places all over the Atlantic world. The chapter examines a transition in the visual representation of the slave from the beseeching captive to the grateful ex-slave. Kerr-Ritchie argues that the popular visual image of slave supplication was crucial in constructing the metaphorical image of ex-slaves’ gratitude for their freedom. Even though visual depictions of heroic and triumphant slaves also exist—challenging the more troubling images of supplicant and grateful slaves—representations of enslaved men and women as passive victims are still disseminated via websites, textbooks, scholarly book covers, academic journal covers, conference posters, and public monuments. Through a well-studied genealogy of the images of supplicant, grateful, and triumphant slaves, this chapter deepens readers’ understanding of the Atlantic visual culture of slavery
Freedpeople in the Tobacco South: Virginia, 1860-1900
No full textThroughout the colonial and antebellum periods, Virginia\u27s tobacco producers exploited slave labor to ensure the profitability of their agricultural enterprises. In the wake of the Civil War, however, the abolition of slavery, combined with changed market conditions, sparked a breakdown of traditional tobacco culture. Focusing on the transformation of social relations between former slaves and former masters, Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie traces the trajectory of this breakdown from the advent of emancipation to the stirrings of African American migration at the turn of the twentieth century.Drawing upon a rich array of sources, Kerr-Ritchie situates the struggles of newly freed people within the shifting parameters of an older slave world, examines the prolonged agricultural depression and structural transformation the tobacco economy underwent between the 1870s and 1890s, and surveys the effects of these various changes on former masters as well as former slaves. While the number of older freedpeople who owned small parcels of land increased phenomenally during this period, he notes, so too did the number of freedom\u27s younger generation who deserted the region\u27s farms and plantations for Virginia\u27s towns and cities. Both these processes contributed to the gradual transformation of the tobacco region in particular and the state in general
Freedom\u27s Seekers: Essays on Comparative Emancipation
No full textJeffery R. Kerr-Ritchie’s Freedom’s Seekers offers a bold and innovative intervention into the study of emancipation as a transnational phe-nomenon and serves as an important contribution to our understanding of the remaking of the nineteenth-century Atlantic Americas. Drawing on decades of research into slave and emancipation societies, Kerr-Ritchie is attentive to those who sought but were not granted freedom, and those who resisted enslavement individually as well as collectively on behalf of their communities. He explores the many roles that fugitive slaves, slave soldiers, and slave rebels played in their own societies. He likewise explicates the lives of individual freedmen, freedwomen, and freed children to show how the first free-born generation helped shape the terms and conditions of the post-slavery world. Freedom’s Seekers is a signal contribution to African Diaspora studies, especially in its rigorous respect for the agency of those who sought and then fought for their freedom, and its consistent attention to the transnational dimensions of emancipation
Rites of August First: Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World
No full textThirty years before Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, the antislavery movement won its first victory in the British Parliament. On August 1, 1834, the Abolition of Slavery Bill took effect, ending colonial slavery throughout the British Empire. Over the next three decades, August First Day, also known as West India Day and Emancipation Day, became the most important annual celebration of emancipation among people of African descent in the northern United States, the British Caribbean, Canada West, and the United Kingdom and played a critical role in popular mobilization against American slavery. In Rites of August First, J. R. KerrRitchie provides the first detailed analysis of the origins, nature, and consequences of this important commemoration that helped to shape the age of AngloAmerican emancipation. Combining social, cultural, and political history, KerrRitchie discusses the ideological and cultural representations of August First Day in print, oratory, and visual images. Spanning the Western hemisphere, Kerr Ritchie successfully unravels the cultural politics of emancipation celebrations, analyzing the social practices informed by public ritual, symbol, and spectacle designed to elicit feelings of common identity among blacks in the Atlantic World. Rites of August First shows how and why the commemorative events changed between British emancipation and the freeing of slaves in the United States a generation later, while also examining the connections among local, regional, and international commemorations. While shedding light on an important black institution that has been long ignored, Rites of August First also contributes to the broader study of emancipation and black Atlantic identity. Its transnational approach challenges local and national narratives that have largely shaped previous investigations of these questions. KerrRitchie shows how culture and community were truly political at this important historical moment and, most broadly, how politics and culture converge and profoundly influence each other
Dr. Jeffrey Hass – Faculty Author Interview
No full textDr. Jeffrey Hass, Associate Professor of Sociology, discusses his new book, Power, Culture, and Economic Change in Russia: To the Undiscovered Country of Post-Socialism, 1988-2008. Utilizing cutting-edge theory and unique data, this book examines the role of power, culture, and practice in Russia’s story of post-socialist economic change, and provides a framework for addressing general economic change
Was U.S. Emancipation Exceptional in the Atlantic, or Other Worlds?
No full textA refreshing and intriguing interdisciplinary examination of the ways in which the history and cultures of the American South have been largely shaped by forces beyond the geographical boundaries of the United States. --Allison Graham, author of Framing the South This is an impressive collection of essays, reflective of the latest theoretical interpretations that illuminate how scholars are looking anew at local stories within a global context. --Glenn T. Eskew, author of But for Birmingham While much research on the American South considers the region in terms of its relationship with the North, emphasizing black and white racial binaries and outdated geographical boundaries, The American South and the Atlantic World seeks larger thematic and spatial contexts. This is the first book to focus explicitly on how contacts with the peoples, cultures, ideas, and economies of the Atlantic World have decisively shaped the history and culture of the American South from colonial times to the modern era. The essays in this interdisciplinary volume examine a wide range of topics, including race, migration, religion, law, slavery, emancipation, literature, memoir, popular culture, and ethnography. At a time when there is growing emphasis on globalizing southern studies the collection both demonstrates and critiques the value of Atlantic World perspectives on the region. Equally important, the mix of case studies and state-of-the field essays combines the latest historical thinking on the South\u27s myriad Atlantic World connections with the kinds of innovative cultural and literary scholarship associated with developments in the New Southern Studies. Ultimately, the volume reveals that there is still much to be learned about both the Atlantic World and the American South by considering them in tandem and from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Moreover, by probing the Atlantic coordinates of the material, historical, emotional, intellectual, cultural, and symbolic South, these essays provide an important framework for better understanding the region and the succession of Atlantic Worlds to which it has long been intimately and distinctively connected. Brian Ward, professor in American studies at Northumbria University, is the author of Radio and the Struggle for Civil Rights in the South. Martyn Bone, associate professor of American literature at the University of Copenhagen, is the author of The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction. William A. Link, Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History at the University of Florida, is the author of Links: My Family in American History
Families, peers, and contexts as multiple determinants of adolescent problem behavior
No full textMost human behaviors are multiply determined, and adolescent problem behavior is no
exception. The complexity of possible influences is obvious. To take a few of many possible
examples, peers, in school or during leisure time, might draw youths into problem behavior; good
or bad relationships with parents might make negative peer influences more or less likely; parents’
rearing practices could prevent or fail to prevent problems, through a number of different means;
and youths with difficult temperaments might be channeled into problem behavior because of
school failure or parents’ failures to teach good social skills. These examples make it obvious that
these influences can work together
Providence College Faculty Author Series 2018-2019: Jeffrey Johnson
No full textIn this installment of the Faculty Authors Series, Jeffrey Johnson (History, Providence College) discusses his newest book, The 1916 Preparedness Day Bombing: Anarchy and Terrorism in Progressive Era America
Providence College Faculty Author Series 2018-2019: Jeffrey Johnson
No full textIn this installment of the Faculty Authors Series, Jeffrey Johnson (History, Providence College) discusses his newest book, The 1916 Preparedness Day Bombing: Anarchy and Terrorism in Progressive Era America
"Very Important Persons" in adolescence: going beyond in-school, single friendships in the study of peer homophily
No full textUsing a sample of 1227 Swedish adolescents we examined peer relations across contexts and for multiple peer targets (three "Very Important Persons", VIPs). Specifically, we examined the relations between antisocial behaviour and the types of relationships individuals had with their VIPs (e.g. friend, romantic partner), the contexts in which they had met, and where they spent time (e.g. school, neighbourhood, club). Additionally, we tested an "additive homophily" hypothesis, or the idea that youths would show unique similarities to multiple peers. Results showed that individuals who nominated romantic partners as their first VIPs were the most antisocial (both boys and girls), and individuals who had met and spent time with their first VIPs in the neighbourhood were also the most antisocial. Similar results were found for the antisocial behaviour of the first VIP. Finally, results supported the additive homophily hypothesis, showing that significantly more variance in individual behaviour is explained when including second and third VIPs. © 2004 The Association for Professionals in Services for Adolescents. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
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