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Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie
J. R. Kerr-Ritchie was born and raised in London. He was formerly a house painter and martial artist before obtaining his Bachelor’s degree in history and politics at Kingston Polytechnic in England. He received a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to pursue his Masters and Doctorate in history from the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught at several private and public universities in the United States and currently teaches in the history department at Howard University in Washington D.C.
Dr. Kerr-Ritchie’s teaching and research interests concern slavery, abolition, post-emancipation societies, and the African Diaspora. He has presented conference papers in Egypt, England, Vietnam, Trinidad, Canada, and twelve American states. He is a prolific writer, having published eighteen book reviews and sixteen refereed articles. He has written Freedpeople in the Tobacco South: Virginia, 1860 to 1900 published in 1999. This year sees the publication of three new books: African American Social Movements, ed., in Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, eds., Howard Dodson and Colin Palmer (Michigan State University Press, 2007); Charles H. Wesley On West Indian Emancipation (Washington D.C.: Association for the Study of African American Life and History, 2007), and Rites of August First: Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007).
His next major project examines the transition
from slavery to emancipation in the New World through the method of
Diaspora. Dr. Kerr-Ritchie insists
that history is an argument without end. An educator, scholar and social
activist, he lives in Durham, North Carolina.
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