This book tackles a hitherto neglected topic by presenting Ireland as very much a part of the Black Atlantic world. It shows how slaves and sugar produced economic and political change in Eighteenth-century Ireland and discusses the role of Irish emigrants in slave societies in the Caribbean and North America.

Auteur
NINI RODGERS was born in Northern Ireland in 1940. She attended Queen's University, Belfast, UK and throughout her academic career, as a member of staff in the History department, she taught courses on European overseas expansion and slavery. She has published articles on nineteenth-century British policy in Ethiopia, the impact of black slavery on eighteenth-century Ireland and the development of the Irish anti-slavery movement. She is currently an honorary senior research fellow in the School of History and Anthropology, Queen's University, Belfast.

Contenu
Introduction PART I: AWAY Slaves and Scholars Servants and Slaves: the Seventeenth Century Creoles and Slaves: the Eighteenth Century Sojourners, Slaves and Stipendiarys: the Nineteenth Century The Trade PART II: AT HOME Protestant, Catholic And Dissenter Dublin, Sweet City Dynasties Anti-Slavery Literature, Mostly Imaginative PART III: EMANCIPATION Daniel O'Connell and Anti-Slavery Frederick Douglass and the 'Antieverythingarians' Famine and War A Special Relationship? Conclusion