American Slavery Irish Freedom

Author : Angela F. Murphy
Publisher : Antislavery, Abolition, and th
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : MINN:31951D03080610S

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American Slavery, Irish Freedom by Angela F. Murphy Pdf

In American Slavery, Irish Freedom, Angela F. Murphy examines the interactions among abolitionists, Irish nationalists, and American citizens as the issues of slavery and abolition complicated the first transatlantic movement for Irish independence. For Irish Americans, the call of Old World loyalties, perceived duties of American citizenship, and regional devotions collided as the slavery issue intertwined with their efforts on behalf of their homeland. By looking at the makeup and rhetoric of the American repeal associations, the pressures on Irish Americans applied by both abolitionists and American nativists, and the domestic and transatlantic political situation that helped to define the repealers' response to antislavery appeals, Murphy investigates and explains why many Irish Americans did not support abolitionism.

Author : Daniel O'Connell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Slavery
ISBN : PSU:000055472340

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Daniel O'Connell Upon American Slavery by Daniel O'Connell Pdf

Author : Fionnghuala Sweeney,Fionnuala Dillane,Maria Stuart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351111980

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Ireland, Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Empire by Fionnghuala Sweeney,Fionnuala Dillane,Maria Stuart Pdf

Although the significance of transatlantic currents of influence on slavery and abolition in the Americas has received substantial scholarly attention, the focus has tended to be largely on the British transatlantic, or on the effects of American racial politics on the emergence of Irish American political identity in the US. The specifics of Ireland’s role as a transnational hub of anti-slavery literary and political activity, and as deeply imbricated in debates around slavery and freedom, are often overlooked. This collection points to the particularity and significance of Ireland’s place in nineteenth-century exchanges around slavery and anti-slavery. Importantly, it foregrounds the context of empire – Ireland was both one of the ‘home’ nations of the UK, on many levels deeply complicit in British imperialism, and a space of emergent anti-colonial radicalism, bourgeois nationalism, and significant literary opportunity for Black abolitionist writers – as a key mediator of the ways in which the conceptual and practical responses to slavery and anti-slavery took shape in the Irish context. Moving beyond the transatlantic model often used to position debates around slavery in the Americas, it incorporates discussion around campaigns to abolish slavery within the empire, opening up the possibility of wider comparative discussions of slavery and anti-slavery around the Indian Ocean and the African continent. It also emphasizes the plurality of positions in play across class, political, racial and national lines, and the ways in which those positions shifted in response to changing social, cultural and economic conditions. This book was originally published as a special issue of Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies.

Author : Daniel O'Connell,American Anti-Slavery Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Slavery
ISBN : OCLC:1522121

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Daniel O'Connell Upon American Slavery by Daniel O'Connell,American Anti-Slavery Society Pdf

Author : Daniel 1775-1847 O'Connell
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1015346162

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Daniel O'Connell Upon American Slavery by Daniel 1775-1847 O'Connell Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : David Brundage
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199715824

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Irish Nationalists in America by David Brundage Pdf

In this important work of deep learning and insight, David Brundage gives us the first full-scale history of Irish nationalists in the United States. Beginning with the brief exile of Theobald Wolfe Tone, founder of Irish republican nationalism, in Philadelphia on the eve of the bloody 1798 Irish rebellion, and concluding with the role of Bill Clinton's White House in the historic 1998 Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, Brundage tells a story of more than two hundred years of Irish American (and American) activism in the cause of Ireland. The book, though, is far more than a narrative history of the movement. Brundage effectively weaves into his account a number of the analytical themes and perspectives that have transformed the study of nationalism over the last two decades. The most important of these perspectives is the "imagined" or "invented" character of nationalism. A second theme is the relationship of nationalism to the waves of global migration from the early nineteenth century to the present and, more precisely, the relationship of nationalist politics to the phenomenon of political exile. Finally, the work is concerned with Irish American nationalists' larger social and political vision, which sometimes expanded to embrace causes such as the abolition of slavery, women's rights, or freedom for British colonial subjects in India and Africa, and at other times narrowed, avoiding or rejecting such "extraneous" concerns and connections. All of these themes are placed within a thoroughly transnational framework that is one of the book's most important contributions. Irish nationalism in America emerges from these pages as a movement of great resonance and power. This is a work that will transform our understanding of the experience of one of America's largest immigrant groups and of the phenomenon of diasporic or "long-distance" nationalism more generally.

Author : Charles Callan Tansill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:52008866

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America and the Fight for Irish Freedom 1866-1922 by Charles Callan Tansill Pdf

Author : Richard English
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780330475822

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Irish Freedom by Richard English Pdf

Richard English's brilliant new book, now available in paperback, is a compelling narrative history of Irish nationalism, in which events are not merely recounted but analysed. Full of rich detail, drawn from years of original research and also from the extensive specialist literature on the subject, it offers explanations of why Irish nationalists have believed and acted as they have, why their ideas and strategies have changed over time, and what effect Irish nationalism has had in shaping modern Ireland. It takes us from the Ulster Plantation to Home Rule, from the Famine of 1847 to the Hunger Strikes of the 1970s, from Parnell to Pearse, from Wolfe Tone to Gerry Adams, from the bitter struggle of the Civil War to the uneasy peace of the early twenty-first century. Is it imaginable that Ireland might – as some have suggested – be about to enter a post-nationalist period? Or will Irish nationalism remain a defining force on the island in future years? 'a courageous and successful attempt to synthesise the entire story between two covers for the neophyte and for the exhausted specialist alike' Tom Garvin, Irish Times

Author : Kathy Tilghman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-23
Category : African American women
ISBN : 1504337395

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Slaves to Freedom by Kathy Tilghman Pdf

An immigrant escapes the Irish potato famine only to find fresh horrors in America in this debut novel. During the winter of 1848, Lord Hargrove Bromwell of Clonaugh, Ireland, is losing his fortune to the potato blight. He decides to oust his tenant farmers, paying their ways to America rather than keeping them on land they can't afford. Twelve-year-old Sarah Laughlin and her mother, Anna, sail for Baltimoretowne in the United States, where Sarah's grandfather Andrew Browne awaits them. Sadly, Anna doesn't survive the ship's unsanitary conditions, and Sarah meets Andrew with her new friends, Joseph and Mrs. Connor, who helped her through the rough trans-Atlantic journey. Soon after arriving, she's offered kitchen work at the Kensington Plantation, where Andrew also works. There, she meets Matilde, a slave her own age. Sarah can't understand why slaves don't earn wages or how they can be considered someone's property. She secretly teaches Matilde to read, flouting the law. Later, she overhears her grandfather speaking with abolitionists about helping escaped slaves from Richmond, Virginia, travel north. Sarah's desire to help Matilde and other slaves escape quickly builds into an irresistible force.

Author : Rhetta Akamatsu
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-28
Category : Emigration and immigration
ISBN : 145630612X

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The Irish Slaves by Rhetta Akamatsu Pdf

"How to deal with the Irish ... it was a tricky problem. For years, the answer was to enslave them, sell them, make them someone else's property or someone else's problem. If you thought that only Africans or other black races were enslaved in Barbados, West India, the American colonies and beyond, this book will open your eyes."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Laurence Fenton
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781848898424

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Frederick Douglass in Ireland by Laurence Fenton Pdf

'When we strove to blot out the stain of slavery and advance the rights of man,' President Obama declared in Dublin in 2011, 'we found common cause with your struggle against oppression. Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave and our great abolitionist, forged an unlikely friendship right here in Dublin with your great liberator, Daniel O'Connell.' Frederick Douglass arrived in Ireland in the summer of 1845, the start of a two-year lecture tour of Britain and Ireland to champion freedom from slavery. He had been advised to leave America after the publication of his incendiary attack on slavery, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. Douglass spent four transformative months in Ireland, filling halls with eloquent denunciations of slavery and causing controversy with graphic descriptions of slaves being tortured. He also shared a stage with Daniel O'Connell and took the pledge from the 'apostle of temperance' Fr Mathew. Douglass delighted in the openness with which he was received, but was shocked at the poverty he encountered. This compelling account of the celebrated escaped slave's tour of Ireland combines a unique insight into the formative years of one of the great figures of nineteenth-century America with a vivid portrait of a country on the brink of famine.

Author : Ira Berlin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674286085

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The Long Emancipation by Ira Berlin Pdf

Ira Berlin offers a framework for understanding slavery’s demise in the United States. Emancipation was not an occasion but a century-long process of brutal struggle by generations of African Americans who were not naive about the price of freedom. Just as slavery was initiated and maintained by violence, undoing slavery also required violence.

Author : Ian Delahanty
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781531506896

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Embracing Emancipation by Ian Delahanty Pdf

Challenges conventional narratives of the Civil War era that emphasize Irish Americans’ unceasing opposition to Black freedom Embracing Emancipation tackles a perennial question in scholarship on the Civil War era: Why did Irish Americans, who claimed to have been oppressed in Ireland, so vehemently opposed the antislavery movement in the United States? Challenging conventional answers to this question that focus on the cultural, political, and economic circumstances of the Irish in America, Embracing Emancipation locates the origins of Irish American opposition to antislavery in famine-era Ireland. There, a distinctively Irish critique of abolitionism emerged during the 1840s, one that was adopted and adapted by Irish Americans during the sectional crisis. The Irish critique of abolitionism meshed with Irish Americans’ belief that the American Union would uplift Irish people on both sides of the Atlantic—if only it could be saved from the forces of disunion. Whereas conventional accounts of the Civil War itself emphasize Irish immigrants’ involvement in the New York City draft riots as a brutal coda to their unflinching opposition to emancipation, Delahanty uncovers a history of Irish Americans who embraced emancipation. Irish American soldiers realized that aiding Black southerners’ attempts at self-liberation would help to subdue the Confederate rebellion. Wartime developments in the United States and Ireland affirmed Irish American Unionists’ belief that the perpetuity of their adopted country was vital to the economic and political prospects of current and future immigrants and to their hopes for Ireland’s independence. Even as some Irish immigrants evinced their disdain for emancipation by lashing out against Union authorities and African Americans in northern cities, many others argued that their transatlantic interests in restoring the Union now aligned with slavery’s demise. While myriad Irish Americans ultimately abandoned their hostility to antislavery, their backgrounds in and continuously renewed connections with Ireland remained consistent influences on how the Irish in America took part in debate over the future of American slavery.

Author : Kate McCafferty
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101176825

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Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl by Kate McCafferty Pdf

Kidnapped from Galway, Ireland, as a young girl, shipped to Barbados, and forced to work the land alongside African slaves, Cot Daley's life has been shaped by injustice. In this stunning debut novel, Kate McCafferty re-creates, through Cot's story, the history of the more than fifty thousand Irish who were sold as indentured servants to Caribbean plantation owners during the seventeenth century. As Cot tells her story-the brutal journey to Barbados, the harrowing years of fieldwork on the sugarcane plantations, her marriage to an African slave and rebel leader, and the fate of her children—her testimony reveals an exceptional woman's astonishing life.

Author : John Francis Maguire
Publisher : New York, Montreal, D. & J. Sadlier
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : History
ISBN : BL:A0017078272

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The Irish in America by John Francis Maguire Pdf