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Black Abolitionists in Ireland : Volume 2.

Kinealy, Christine.

Black Abolitionists in Ireland : Volume 2. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (276 pages) - Routledge Studies in Modern European History Series . - Routledge Studies in Modern European History Series .

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Ira Aldridge (1807-1867): 'A Stranger No More' -- 2 William 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. 1821-1880?): 'The Black Ghost' -- 7 William Howard Day (1825-1900): 'A Disenfranchised American' -- 8 After Thoughts: 'We Carry the Horrors of the Slavery Past With Us' -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

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.

9781003859925


Douglass, Frederick,-1818-1895-Travel-Ireland.
Abolitionists-Ireland-Biography.
Antislavery movements-Ireland-History-19th century.
Ireland-Race relations-History-19th century.


Electronic books.

HT1029.A3 K564 2024

326.80922417

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