Ireland, Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Empire

Fionnghuala Sweeney is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at Newcastle University, UK. Her research concentrates on American, African American and Caribbean literature and visual culture, literary connections between Ireland and the Black Atlantic, and Afromodernism. She has published widely in these areas and is author of Frederick Douglass and the Atlantic World (2008).

This book explores Ireland's role as a transnational hub of anti-slavery literary and political activity, emphasizing views from across class, political, racial and national lines. This book was originally published as a special issue of Slavery & Abolition.

Foreword - Ireland, slavery, antislavery, post-slavery and empire: an historiographical survey 1. Common ground: positioning Ireland within studies of slavery, anti-slavery and empire Part I - Bodies of Experience 2. 'A Good Head and a Better Whip': Ireland, Enlightenment, and the body of slavery in Marlon James's The Book of Night Women 3. Colonial bodies and the abolition of slavery: a tale of two Cobbes Part II - Humanitarian Politics and Protest 4. Debating empire and slavery: Ireland and British India, 1820-1845 5 'This foul slavery-reviving system': Irish opposition to the Jamaica Emigration Scheme 6. Black abolitionists, Irish supporters, and the brotherhood of man Part III - Geographies of Race 7. Failing to 'unite with the abolitionists': the Irish Nationalist Press and U.S. emancipation 8. Amalgamation, moral geography, and 'slum tourism': Irish and African Americans sharing space on the streets and stages of antebellum New York