Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery: 1612-1865

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: N. Rodgers
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 01/31/2007
Pages: 403
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 8.74h x 5.72w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780333770993

About the Author
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. She is currently an honorary senior research fellow in the School of History and Anthropology, Queen's University, Belfast.