Ireland, Slavery And Anti-Slavery: 1612-1865

by Nini Rodgers

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.

Genres: History

408 pages, Paperback

First published January 31, 2007

Reviews

[Jessie]

"Ireland" as a people, nation, state were NOT, NEVER involved in any slave trade. A very few individuals or even families were made leave Ireland. They were living in France, under French jurisdiction or even no jurisdiction. How anyone, especially a so-called "academic" could imply that Ireland as a whole was involved and benefited from the trans Atlantic slave trade when the vast majority were oppressed and living in an apartheid like system subjugated by the British.

[Lucy McCormill]

super duper useful secondary source