Ireland, slavery and anti-slavery: 1612-1865

I: Away

Slaves and scholars

Servants and slaves: the seventeenth century

Creoles and slaves: the eighteenth century

Sojourners, slaves and stipendiaries: the nineteenth century

The trade

II: At home

Protestant, Catholic

And dissenter

Dublin, sweet city

Dynasties

Anti-slavery literature, mostly imaginative

III: Emancipation

Daniel O'Connell and anti-slavery

Frederick Douglass and the 'antieverythingarians'

Famine and war

A special relationship?

Conclusion.