Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery: 1645-1865

by Rodgers, Nini

• ISBN13: 9780333770993
• ISBN10: 0333770994
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book tackles a hitherto neglected topic, showing how slaves and sugar produced economic and political change in eighteenth-century Ireland and discussing the role of Irish emigrants in slave societies in the Caribbean and North America. It traces the development of the Irish anti-slavery movement explaining why it appealed to such prominent figures as Olaudah Equiano, Fredrick Douglass, and Daniel O'Connell.

Author Biography

NINI RODGERS was born in Northern Ireland in 1940. She attended Queen's University 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

Historiographical Introduction * A Study of Three Merchant Families in Three Ports * A Study of the Emigrant Founders of Three Slave Holding Dynasties * Irish Politics in the Age of Revolution 1775-1798 * The Role of Anti-Slavery Literature * The Irish at Westminster * The Irish Abroad

Historiographical Introduction * A Study of Three Merchant Families in Three Ports * A Study of the Emigrant Founders of Three Slave Holding Dynasties * Irish Politics in the Age of Revolution 1775-1798 * The Role of Anti-Slavery Literature * The Irish at Westminster * The Irish Abroad