Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery: 1612-1865 (Hardcover)

N Rodgers
Palgrave MacMillan UK
9780333770993
0-333-77099-4

This book tackles a hitherto neglected topic, showing how slaves and sugar produced economic and political change in eighteenth-century Ireland and discussing the role of Irish emigrants in slave societies.

read more…

in the Caribbean and North America. It traces the development of the Irish anti-slavery movement explaining why it appealed to such prominent figures as Olaudah Equiano, Fredrick Douglass, and Daniel O'Connell.