Black Abolitionists in Ireland

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 the most ‘ardent’ that he had ever encountered. Moreover, their involvement proved to be an important factor in ending the slave trade, and later slavery, in both the British Empire and in America.

While Frederick Douglass remains the most renowned black abolitionist to visit Ireland, he was not the only one. This publication traces t...