Introduction
1. Eli Worthington Stokes (?–1867): ‘A Voice from Africa’
2. William Gustavus Allen (c.1820–1888): ‘The Coloured Professor’
3. Isaac [J.] W. Davison [Davidson] (dates unknown): The Pulpit Orator
4. William Mitchell (c.1826–c.1879) and William Troy (1827-1905): ‘A Labour of Love’
5. James Cheeney Thompson (c.1840–?): ‘A Somewhat Good-Looking Quadroon’
6. Robert Maxwell Johnson (c.1825–1871): The Aspiring Medical Missionary
Biography
Christine Kinealy is the Founding Director of Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University and serves on the Board of the African American Irish Diaspora Network. An Emmy-Award-winning authority on nineteenth-century Irish history, her work focuses on the Great Famine and the Irish abolition movement. Her previous publications include Frederick Douglass and Ireland: In His Own Words (2018) and Becoming Ira Aldridge: A Black Shakespearean Actor in Ireland (2023).
