Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery: 1612-1865

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: N. Rodgers
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 04/01/2009
Pages: 410
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780230574779

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.