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. INDICE: Introduction - PART I: AWAY - Slaves and Scholars - Servants and Slaves: The Seventeenth Century - Creoles and Slaves: The Eighteenth Century - Sojourners, Slaves and Stipendiarys: The Nineteenth Century - The Trade - PARTII: AT HOME - Protestant, Catholic - And Dissenter - Dublin, Sweet City - Dynasties - Anti-Slavery Literature, Mostly Imaginative - PART III: EMANCIPATION - Daniel O'Connell and Anti-Slavery - Frederick Douglass and the 'Antieverythingarians' - Famine and War - A Special Relationship? - Conclusion
- ISBN: 978-0-230-57477-9
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 412
- Fecha Publicación: 30/01/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés