This study offers invaluable insight into a much-neglected area of
historical research on this nineteenth-century political figure.
Previous histories on O'Connell have dealt predominantly with his
attempts to secure a repeal of the 1800 Act of Union and on his
success in achieving Catholic Emancipation in 1829. In this title
Kinealy focuses instead on the neglected issue of O'Connell's
contribution to the anti-slavery movement in the United States. She
argues that by using his influences over Irish immigrants in the
United States, O'Connell negotiated a position of importance in the
international debate over the right to freedom. The anti-slavery
movement occupied an important place in O'Connell's wider
commitment to humanitarian politics. He was both a member of the
British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society and Secretary of the
Glasgow Anti-Slavery Society and he developed an international
reputation as an influential spokesman on the issue.
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