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Black Abolitionists in Ireland (Hardcover)
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Black Abolitionists in Ireland (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History
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The story of the anti-slavery movement in Ireland is little known,
yet when Frederick Douglass visited the country in 1845, he
described Irish abolitionists as the most 'ardent' that he had ever
encountered. Moreover, their involvement proved to be an important
factor in ending the slave trade, and later slavery, in both the
British Empire and in America. While Frederick Douglass remains the
most renowned black abolitionist to visit Ireland, he was not the
only one. This publication traces the stories of ten black
abolitionists, including Douglass, who travelled to Ireland in the
decades before the American Civil War, to win support for their
cause. It opens with former slave, Olaudah Equiano, kidnapped as a
boy from his home in Africa, and who was hosted by the United
Irishmen in the 1790s; it closes with the redoubtable Sarah Parker
Remond, who visited Ireland in 1859 and chose never to return to
America. The stories of these ten men and women, and their
interactions with Ireland, are diverse and remarkable.
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