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Slavery became more prevalent throughout Ireland the 11th century as port cities built up by Vikings flourished, with Dublin becoming the biggest slave market in Western Europe. Its main sources of supply were the Irish hinterland, Wales and Scotland.
Mar 7, 2021 · Rory Carroll. Sun 7 Mar 2021 01.00 EST. It was one of the most shocking chapters in Britain’s long, bloody subjugation of Ireland: the buying, selling and transportation of Irish chattel...
Sep 16, 2016 · Nini Rodgers. This article traces the development of academic writing on Ireland's role in the Black Atlantic. In the nineteen thirties, publications appeared focusing on an Irish presence in the plantation complex. The nineteen seventies produced a study of the island's antislavery movement.
- Nini Rodgers
- 2016
When trade restrictions were eased in the late eighteenth century, a number of Irish businessmen tried to get the country more directly involved in the slave-trade, with a plan announced for the establishment of an ‘African company’ in Limerick in 1784. Six ships would be employed annually, carrying firearms, linen, cottons, soap, candles ...
Ireland was very much part of the Black Atlantic world. Nini Rodgers is a retired lecturer from the School of History, Queen’s University, Belfast. Further reading: N. Rodgers, Ireland, slavery and anti-slavery 1612–1865 (Basingstoke, 2007). B. Rolston and M. Shannon, Encounters: how racism came to Ireland (Belfast, 2002).
Aug 23, 2023 · Slavery and Ireland: How we stayed on the right side of history. August 23, 2023 by Matthew Sloan. Updated: August 24, 2023. We examine Ireland’s successes and pitfalls in opposing the transatlantic slave trade.
Jul 22, 2020 · O’Connell become a leader of the global anti-slavery movement and it lifted “the feelings of slaves”, Henry Highland Garnet told an 1851 Dublin audience, when the Liberator’s “mighty voice was...
