Black Abolitionists in Ireland

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 American Civil War.

Christine Kinealy is the Director of Ireland's Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University and is on the Board of the African American Irish Diaspora Network. She is an authority on nineteenth-century Irish history, with a focus on the Great Famine and the Irish abolition movement. Her award-winning publications include Frederick Douglass and Ireland: In His Own Words (2018).

1. Ira Aldridge (1807-1867) 'A Stranger No More' 2. Henry Lane. (c. 1825-c.1851) 'He Danced Himself to Death' 3. William P. Powell (1807 - c.1879) 'A black son of Neptune' 4. Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield (c.1824-1876). 'Be Strikingly Genteel' 5. Reuben Nixon (dates unknown). 'An Incorrigible Imposter' 6. James Watkins (c. 1821 -). 'The black ghost' 7. William Howard Day (1825-1900). 'A Disenfranchised 8. After Thoughts