Rites of August First
Subtitle: Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World
Edition: First printing
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: USA
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780807132326
Copyright date: 2007
First sentence: On August 13, 1834, the Marquess of Sligo sat down and wrote a long letter from King’s House, Spanish Town, to the British colonial secretary Thomas Spring Rice in London.