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
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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
