Man Emerson Mount has actually won the $ 1, 000 George and Ann Richards Reward for the best article released in The Journal of the Civil War Age in 2024 The write-up, “Shall I Go? Black Colonization in the Pacific, 1840 – 1914 appeared in the December 2024 unique issue, Black Internationalism in the Age of Emancipation , visitor modified by Brandon R. Byrd.
The reward board was impressed by the post’s “cutting-edge strategy and its enlightening understandings” and applauded it for developing “an ingenious historical arc that illuminates just how white state crafters looked for to tackle the issue of emancipation via colonization.” The committee called the short article “wonderfully composed” and anticipated that it “will not just offer scholars of slavery, abolition, Reconstruction, and United States imperialism a brand-new means to consider the connections in between these topics however additionally fuel better discussion about the area of the Pacific in the backgrounds of nineteenth-century America.”
Mount is an Aide Teacher of Background and an associate in African American Research Studies at Wake Woodland University. He teaches programs in Atlantic Background, Antebellum America, the Civil War and Repair, and the Global History of Reparations. He gained his PhD from the College of Chicago under the direction of Tom Holt. While at Chicago, he co-founded the Repairs at UChicago Working Team which first discovered the University’s historical connections to enslavement while organizing along with homeowners of the South Side of Chicago for reparations. Previously he held a Carter G. Woodson fellowship at the University of Virginia and a tenure-track placement at Auburn College where he was given the Exceptional Grad Advisor Honor in 2022 His existing book job, from which the winning post is derived, is tentatively entitled Black Elsewheres: Enslavement, Empire, and Reconstruction in the Black Pacific
Granted annually, the Richards Prize commemorates the generosity of George and Ann Richards, that contributed in the growth of the Richards Civil Battle Period Center and in the starting of The Journal of the Civil Battle Age. The journal is happy for the solution of this year’s prize board: Joanna Cohen, Queen Mary University of London (chair); Anne Sarah Rubin, College of Maryland, Baltimore Area; and Gabriel (Jack) Chin, College of California, Davis School of Regulation.
Robert Bland
Robert D. Bland is an Aide Professor of Background and Africana Researches at the College of Tennessee, Knoxville
