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.