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Ireland, Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Empire (Hardcover)
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Ireland, Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Empire (Hardcover)
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Although the significance of transatlantic currents of influence on
slavery and abolition in the Americas has received substantial
scholarly attention, the focus has tended to be largely on the
British transatlantic, or on the effects of American racial
politics on the emergence of Irish American political identity in
the US. The specifics of Ireland's role as a transnational hub of
anti-slavery literary and political activity, and as deeply
imbricated in debates around slavery and freedom, are often
overlooked. This collection points to the particularity and
significance of Ireland's place in nineteenth-century exchanges
around slavery and anti-slavery. Importantly, it foregrounds the
context of empire - Ireland was both one of the 'home' nations of
the UK, on many levels deeply complicit in British imperialism, and
a space of emergent anti-colonial radicalism, bourgeois
nationalism, and significant literary opportunity for Black
abolitionist writers - as a key mediator of the ways in which the
conceptual and practical responses to slavery and anti-slavery took
shape in the Irish context. Moving beyond the transatlantic model
often used to position debates around slavery in the Americas, it
incorporates discussion around campaigns to abolish slavery within
the empire, opening up the possibility of wider comparative
discussions of slavery and anti-slavery around the Indian Ocean and
the African continent. It also emphasizes the plurality of
positions in play across class, political, racial and national
lines, and the ways in which those positions shifted in response to
changing social, cultural and economic conditions. This book was
originally published as a special issue of Slavery & Abolition:
A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies.
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