Individual Emerson Mount has actually won the $ 1, 000 George and Ann Richards Reward for the best short article released in The Journal of the Civil Battle Period in 2024 The write-up, “Shall I Go? Black Emigration in the Pacific, 1840 – 1914 showed up in the December 2024 unique issue, Black Internationalism in the Age of Emancipation , guest modified by Brandon R. Byrd.
The prize board was excited by the write-up’s “ingenious technique and its illuminating insights” and applauded it for creating “an ingenious historical arc that brightens how white state crafters sought to take on the problem of emancipation through emigration.” The committee called the write-up “beautifully created” and predicted that it “will certainly not only offer scholars of slavery, abolition, Reconstruction, and United States expansionism a brand-new method to think about the connections between these topics however also fuel better discussion regarding the place of the Pacific in the backgrounds of nineteenth-century America.”
Mount is an Assistant Teacher of History and an affiliate in African American Studies at Wake Forest University. He shows programs in Atlantic Background, Antebellum America, the Civil Battle and Reconstruction, and the Worldwide History of Adjustments. He earned his PhD from the College of Chicago under the instructions of Tom Holt. While at Chicago, he co-founded the Adjustments at UChicago Working Team which first discovered the University’s historic connections to slavery while arranging along with citizens of the South Side of Chicago for repairs. Previously he held a Carter G. Woodson fellowship at the College of Virginia and a tenure-track position at Auburn College where he was provided the Exceptional Grad Advisor Award in 2022 His existing book project, from which the winning write-up is obtained, is tentatively labelled Black Elsewheres: Enslavement, Empire, and Restoration in the Black Pacific
Granted yearly, the Richards Reward commemorates the generosity of George and Ann Richards, who contributed in the growth of the Richards Civil Battle Age Center and in the starting of The Journal of the Civil Battle Period. The journal is grateful for the solution of this year’s prize committee: Joanna Cohen, Queen Mary University of London (chair); Anne Sarah Rubin, University of Maryland, Baltimore Area; and Gabriel (Jack) Chin, College of The Golden State, Davis School of Law.
Robert Bland
Robert D. Bland is an Aide Teacher of History and Africana Research Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
