The story of the anti-slavery movement in Ireland is little known, yet when Frederick Douglass visited the country in 1845, he described Irish abolitionists as

Building on the narratives explored in volume one, this publication recovers the story of a further seven Black visitors to Ireland in the decades prior to the

Although the significance of transatlantic currents of influence on slavery and abolition in the Americas has received substantial scholarly attention, the focu

Makes clear the extent to which black people were involved in planning the battle against slavery and examines the special concerns which they brought to the st

This five-volume documentary collection--culled from an international archival search that turned up over 14,000 letters, speeches, pamphlets, essays, and newsp