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Black Abolitionists in Ireland : Volume 2.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge Studies in Modern European History SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (276 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781003859925
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Black Abolitionists in IrelandDDC classification:
  • 326.80922417
LOC classification:
  • HT1029.A3 K564 2024
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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