Christine Kinealy

Black Abolitionists in Ireland (eBook, ePUB)

Volume 2

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Building on the narratives explored in volume one, this publication recovers the story of a further seven Black visitors to Ireland in the decades prior to the American Civil War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003859925
• Artikelnr.: 69958085

Autorenporträt

Christine Kinealy is the Director of Ireland's Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University and is on the Board of the African American Irish Diaspora Network. She is an authority on nineteenth-century Irish history, with a focus on the Great Famine and the Irish abolition movement. Her award-winning publications include Frederick Douglass and Ireland: In His Own Words (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Ira Aldridge (1807-1867) 'A Stranger No More' 2. Henry Lane. (c. 1825-c.1851) 'He Danced Himself to Death' 3. William P. Powell (1807 - c.1879) 'A black son of Neptune' 4. Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield (c.1824-1876). 'Be Strikingly Genteel' 5. Reuben Nixon (dates unknown). 'An Incorrigible Imposter' 6. James Watkins (c. 1821 -). 'The black ghost' 7. William Howard Day (1825-1900). 'A Disenfranchised 8. After Thoughts

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Introduction
1 Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797): 'In every respect on par with Europeans'
2 Moses Roper (1815-1891): 'A religious turn of mind'
3 Charles Lenox Remond (1810-1873): 'A mission of humanity'
4 Frederick Douglass (1818-1895): 'Agitate, Agitate, Agitate!'
5 William Wells Brown (c.1814-1884): 'A cultivated fugitive'
6 Henry Highland Garnet (1815-1882): 'A staunch new organizationist'
7 Edmund Kelly (1817-1884): 'A family redeemed from bondage'
8 Samuel Ringgold Ward (1817-c.1866): 'A Christian abolitionist'?
9 Benjamin Benson (1818-?): 'Drunkenness ... worse than slavery'
10 Sarah Parker Remond (1826-1894): 'Remarkably feminine and graceful'
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