1st Edition

Daniel O'Connell and the Anti-Slavery Movement 'The Saddest People the Sun Sees'

By Christine Kinealy Copyright 2011
    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    Previous histories on O’Connell have dealt predominantly with his attempts to secure a repeal of the 1800 Act of Union and on his success in achieving Catholic Emancipation in 1829, Kinealy focuses instead on the neglected issue of O’Connell’s contribution to the anti-slavery movement in the United States.

    Chapter 1 Introduction: Black, White and Green.; Chapter 1a ‘The Colour of Servitude’; Chapter 2 ‘Agitate! Agitate! Agitate!’; Chapter 3 ‘Slavery under Another Name’; Chapter 4 ‘Murderers of Liberty’; Chapter 5 ‘Foreign Interference in Domestic Affairs’; Chapter 6 ‘American Sympathy and Irish Blackguardism’; Chapter 7 ‘The Man of All Men’; Chapter 8 ‘The Negro's Friend’;

    Biography

    Christine Kinealy