Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery: 1612-1865

by Rodgers, Nini

• ISBN13: 9780230574779
• ISBN10: 0230574777
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book tackles a hitherto neglected topic by presenting Ireland as very much a part of the Black Atlantic world. It shows how slaves and sugar produced economic and political change in Eighteenth-century Ireland and discusses the role of Irish emigrants in slave societies in the Caribbean and North America.

Author Biography

NINI RODGERS was born in Northern Ireland in 1940. She attended Queen's University, Belfast, UK and throughout her academic career, as a member of staff in the History department, she taught courses on European overseas expansion and slavery. She has published articles on nineteenth-century British policy in Ethiopia, the impact of black slavery on eighteenth-century Ireland and the development of the Irish anti-slavery movement.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Away
Slaves and scholars	p. 7
Servants and slaves: The Seventeenth Century	p. 27
Creoles and slaves: The Eighteenth Century	p. 55
Sojourners, slaves: The Eighteenth Century	p. 82
The Trade	p. 95
At Home
protestant, catholic	p. 119
And Dissenter	p. 145
Dublin, sweet City	p. 159
Dynasties	p. 197
Anti-slavery Literature, Mostly Imaginative	p. 230
Emancipation
Daniel O'Connell and Anti-slavery	p. 259
Frederick Douglass and the 'Antieverthingarians'	p. 278
Famine and war	p. 290
A Special Relationship?	p. 312
Conclusion	p. 331
Notes	p. 333
Bibliography	p. 369
Maps	p. 382
Index	p. 384
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