Nini Rodgers
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5132575 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nini Rodgers |
| NOMBRES | Nini |
| APELLIDO | Rodgers |
| FIRMA | RODGERS N |
| AFILIACIONES | Queen's University Belfast |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1984 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Ireland, slavery, antislavery, post-slavery and empire
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. Both discoveries were the work of lone pioneers. Meanwhile political developments after the Second World War produced American historians determined to understand this te…
Banishment in the Early Atlantic World
This is a wide-ranging book, diverse in subject matter and chronological in approach. The chosen term ‘banishment’ is described as a ‘catch all’ for the many ways in which the English/British autho
Protestant, Catholic
When the Spanish crown acquired its valuable territories overseas it was quick to tie them closely into its mercantile and taxation system. From the start colonists paid the king a 3 percent sales tax the alcabala and he also received ‘the royal fifth’ on gold, silver, tobacco and sugar exported to Spain. Bernard O’Brien in his memorial seeking support for an Irish colony in Brazil stressed the corrupt nature of the Portuguese administration ther…
And Dissenter
During the eighteenth century Ulster was seen as the heart of linen manufacture, and linen counted for three quarters of Ireland’s exports, provisions for only one quarter. Yet Belfast remained a small port, its population in 1750 only half the size of Cork’s in 1705. While it was bigger than its northern rivals, Derry and Newry the possibility that it would be surpassed by Newry, the first Irish port to construct a canal cutting deep into the co…
A Special Relationship?
Slavery as a metaphor had a widespread appeal and a long pedigree. Love, as the strongest of emotional bonds, was an obvious subject. In eighteenth-century London, James Boswell, white and pro-slavery, employed it whimsically to describe male subjection to female attraction; in nineteenth-century Philadelphia, Sarah Forten, a black contributor to her city’s anti-slavery bazaar was charmed by a local effusion employing the same technique. 1 In Ire…
Servants and Slaves
Bernard O’Brien, son of Cornelius O’Brien ‘a noble gentleman of the house of the Earl of Thomond’ was born in 1603 and, at 17 years of age, crossed the Atlantic to become one of the first Irish slave owners in the New World. 1 It seems unlikely that he would have thought of applying archaic words such as cumal or mug to his novel property. Though almost certainly, he would have been familiar with that descendant of the mug , moshadh , the classic…
Frederick Douglass and the ‘Antieverythingarians’
Though the numbers involved in Irish anti-slavery societies would never be large, the country’s close involvement with America always secured them a degree of public interest. The image of Africans in the Irish mind was changing. In the 1790s they had appeared as slave servants, drummer boys and the little red-capped symbol of liberty carried high in political procession. Now the equation of blacks and the United States was firmly establishing it…
Sojourners, Slaves and Stipendiaries
In the age of sugar and slaves, the most consistent and pervasive Irish presence in the West Indies was the sojourner, a figure who ensured that Hibernian links were regularly renewed. The term, brought into use by twentieth century sociologists, applied to someone intending to work for some time in the colonies and then return home.1 From a practical point of view, it was of course a permeable state; death might bring about a change of status, t…
Daniel O’Connell and Anti-Slavery
From 1801 to 1833, from the passing of the Irish Act of Union to the abolition of slavery throughout the British empire, within the Westminster parliament, the issues of Catholic emancipation and African slavery were closely linked. Both were reforms, unlike many others, which were not extinguished by the continuation of war with France until 1815. At the turn of the century both were favoured by Prime Minister William Pitt and then abandoned by …
Dynasties
The surge of revolutions though the transatlantic world at the close of the eighteenth century has generally been seen by historians as empowering for America and embittering for Ireland. The claim that Irish emigrants (Scotch Irish, i.e. Ulster Presbyterians) played a significant role in securing American independence has been frequently made and increasingly queried. Less contested is the view that plantation owners headed the struggle for colo…
Famine and War
The horror ship of the eighteenth century is the slave ship, the horror ship of the nineteenth century is the ‘coffin ship’ of the Great Famine. The slave ship preparing for its two month voyage, collecting its cargo over as long a period, the crew sickly and abusive, shackling their numbered cargo, stowing the male portion down below, bringing them up for feeding with firearms trained on them to discourage revolt, which nevertheless often took p…
Creoles and Slaves
Though Irish servants now preferred Jamaica as a destination and black slaves were demographically dominant, in many respects eighteenth-century Montserrat was still an Irish island. Political arrangements reflected the homeland as penal laws deprived Catholics of rights which they had been able to exercise under Stapleton’s religiously opaque, Restoration regime. Catholics could no longer hope to acquire office as magistrates, councillors and as…
Anti-Slavery Literature, Mostly Imaginative
As with tobacco colonies, the Irish could be found among the forerunners in this developing region. It was the Dubliner and Trinity College graduate, Thomas Southerne (1659–1746) who transformed Mrs Aphra Behn’s novel Oronooko into a popular London stage play, maintaining the tragedy, adding in some comic lines and ensuring that the sufferings of the princely slave remained in the public eye throughout the eighteenth century. In these early days,…
The Trade
By the end of the eighteenth century the slave trade, though flourishing, was generally receiving verbal condemnation. As he drafted the Declaration of Independence in 1776, Thomas Jefferson denounced the trade as the tyrannical and cruel work of George III, but other slaveholder signatories felt this was an embarrassing overstatement and removed the phrases. In 1787, at the making of the US constitution, it was accepted that no union would emerg…
Slaves and Scholars
Slavery in its full-blown form is hereditary bondage, the existence of a group at the bottom of society without legal rights. It is identified as prospering in regions where land is readily available and labour in short supply, so that people rather than territory are the most obviously valuable asset. Its flowering in the Americas as a powerful agent of economic development has left a difficult legacy for the Western world and, as a result, it h…
Dublin, Sweet City
In the case of Cork and Belfast, West Indian trade had played a formative role in urban growth. Dublin presents a more complex pattern; seat of government, dominant port, woollen manufacturing centre, national linen market, many strands came together to produce the impressive expansion of Ireland’s capital from a population of 60,000 in 1700 to 180,000 in 1800. Like Cork and Belfast, Dublin shared in the export of those products permitted by trad…
Conclusion
The development of black slavery in the Americas illustrates the inexorable power of economics. The number of Africans who were exported across the Atlantic in the nineteenth century suggests that the abolition of the trade was ineffective, that as long as the expanding plantation system required slave labour, that labour continued to arrive. However as the nineteenth century progressed, the amount of land suitable for plantation crops began to s…
Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery
This book tackles a hitherto neglected topic by presenting Ireland as very much a part of the Black Atlantic world. It shows how slaves and sugar produced economic and political change in Eighteenth-c
Ireland and the Black Atlantic in the eighteenth century
In the second half of the twentieth century few subjects have excited more extensive historical debate in the western world than black slavery. American investigation has centred upon the actual operation of the institution. An impressively wide range of historical techniques, cliometrics, comparative history, cultural studies, the imagination of the novelist, have all been employed in a vigorous attempt to recover and evaluate the slave past. In…
Equiano in Belfast
1997). Equiano in Belfast: A study of the anti‐slavery ethos in a Northern Town. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 73-89
The Abyssinian Expedition of 1867–1868
In the summer of 1867 Lord Derby's minority Conservative government, scarcely recovered from the political steeplechase which ended in the Second Reform Act, launched an expedition into Abyssinia, the declared aim of which was to free a group of British captives in duress there. This expensive little war is now remembered, if at all, as a lavish and triumphant picnic for the Indian army yet, as a recent historian has pointed out, it does not dese…
Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery
This book tackles a hitherto neglected topic by presenting Ireland as very much a part of the Black Atlantic world. It shows how slaves and sugar produced economic and political change in Eighteenth-c
Equiano in Belfast
1997). Equiano in Belfast: A study of the anti‐slavery ethos in a Northern Town. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 73-89
The Abyssinian Expedition of 1867–1868
In the summer of 1867 Lord Derby's minority Conservative government, scarcely recovered from the political steeplechase which ended in the Second Reform Act, launched an expedition into Abyssinia, the declared aim of which was to free a group of British captives in duress there. This expensive little war is now remembered, if at all, as a lavish and triumphant picnic for the Indian army yet, as a recent historian has pointed out, it does not dese…
Ireland and the Black Atlantic in the eighteenth century
In the second half of the twentieth century few subjects have excited more extensive historical debate in the western world than black slavery. American investigation has centred upon the actual operation of the institution. An impressively wide range of historical techniques, cliometrics, comparative history, cultural studies, the imagination of the novelist, have all been employed in a vigorous attempt to recover and evaluate the slave past. In…
The Abyssinian Expedition of 1867–1868
In the summer of 1867 Lord Derby's minority Conservative government, scarcely recovered from the political steeplechase which ended in the Second Reform Act, launched an expedition into Abyssinia, the declared aim of which was to free a group of British captives in duress there. This expensive little war is now remembered, if at all, as a lavish and triumphant picnic for the Indian army yet, as a recent historian has pointed out, it does not dese…
Equiano in Belfast
1997). Equiano in Belfast: A study of the anti‐slavery ethos in a Northern Town. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 73-89
Ireland and the Black Atlantic in the eighteenth century
In the second half of the twentieth century few subjects have excited more extensive historical debate in the western world than black slavery. American investigation has centred upon the actual operation of the institution. An impressively wide range of historical techniques, cliometrics, comparative history, cultural studies, the imagination of the novelist, have all been employed in a vigorous attempt to recover and evaluate the slave past. In…
Protestant, Catholic
When the Spanish crown acquired its valuable territories overseas it was quick to tie them closely into its mercantile and taxation system. From the start colonists paid the king a 3 percent sales tax the alcabala and he also received ‘the royal fifth’ on gold, silver, tobacco and sugar exported to Spain. Bernard O’Brien in his memorial seeking support for an Irish colony in Brazil stressed the corrupt nature of the Portuguese administration ther…
And Dissenter
During the eighteenth century Ulster was seen as the heart of linen manufacture, and linen counted for three quarters of Ireland’s exports, provisions for only one quarter. Yet Belfast remained a small port, its population in 1750 only half the size of Cork’s in 1705. While it was bigger than its northern rivals, Derry and Newry the possibility that it would be surpassed by Newry, the first Irish port to construct a canal cutting deep into the co…
A Special Relationship?
Slavery as a metaphor had a widespread appeal and a long pedigree. Love, as the strongest of emotional bonds, was an obvious subject. In eighteenth-century London, James Boswell, white and pro-slavery, employed it whimsically to describe male subjection to female attraction; in nineteenth-century Philadelphia, Sarah Forten, a black contributor to her city’s anti-slavery bazaar was charmed by a local effusion employing the same technique. 1 In Ire…
Servants and Slaves
Bernard O’Brien, son of Cornelius O’Brien ‘a noble gentleman of the house of the Earl of Thomond’ was born in 1603 and, at 17 years of age, crossed the Atlantic to become one of the first Irish slave owners in the New World. 1 It seems unlikely that he would have thought of applying archaic words such as cumal or mug to his novel property. Though almost certainly, he would have been familiar with that descendant of the mug , moshadh , the classic…
Frederick Douglass and the ‘Antieverythingarians’
Though the numbers involved in Irish anti-slavery societies would never be large, the country’s close involvement with America always secured them a degree of public interest. The image of Africans in the Irish mind was changing. In the 1790s they had appeared as slave servants, drummer boys and the little red-capped symbol of liberty carried high in political procession. Now the equation of blacks and the United States was firmly establishing it…
Sojourners, Slaves and Stipendiaries
In the age of sugar and slaves, the most consistent and pervasive Irish presence in the West Indies was the sojourner, a figure who ensured that Hibernian links were regularly renewed. The term, brought into use by twentieth century sociologists, applied to someone intending to work for some time in the colonies and then return home.1 From a practical point of view, it was of course a permeable state; death might bring about a change of status, t…
Daniel O’Connell and Anti-Slavery
From 1801 to 1833, from the passing of the Irish Act of Union to the abolition of slavery throughout the British empire, within the Westminster parliament, the issues of Catholic emancipation and African slavery were closely linked. Both were reforms, unlike many others, which were not extinguished by the continuation of war with France until 1815. At the turn of the century both were favoured by Prime Minister William Pitt and then abandoned by …
Dynasties
The surge of revolutions though the transatlantic world at the close of the eighteenth century has generally been seen by historians as empowering for America and embittering for Ireland. The claim that Irish emigrants (Scotch Irish, i.e. Ulster Presbyterians) played a significant role in securing American independence has been frequently made and increasingly queried. Less contested is the view that plantation owners headed the struggle for colo…
Famine and War
The horror ship of the eighteenth century is the slave ship, the horror ship of the nineteenth century is the ‘coffin ship’ of the Great Famine. The slave ship preparing for its two month voyage, collecting its cargo over as long a period, the crew sickly and abusive, shackling their numbered cargo, stowing the male portion down below, bringing them up for feeding with firearms trained on them to discourage revolt, which nevertheless often took p…
Creoles and Slaves
Though Irish servants now preferred Jamaica as a destination and black slaves were demographically dominant, in many respects eighteenth-century Montserrat was still an Irish island. Political arrangements reflected the homeland as penal laws deprived Catholics of rights which they had been able to exercise under Stapleton’s religiously opaque, Restoration regime. Catholics could no longer hope to acquire office as magistrates, councillors and as…
Anti-Slavery Literature, Mostly Imaginative
As with tobacco colonies, the Irish could be found among the forerunners in this developing region. It was the Dubliner and Trinity College graduate, Thomas Southerne (1659–1746) who transformed Mrs Aphra Behn’s novel Oronooko into a popular London stage play, maintaining the tragedy, adding in some comic lines and ensuring that the sufferings of the princely slave remained in the public eye throughout the eighteenth century. In these early days,…
The Trade
By the end of the eighteenth century the slave trade, though flourishing, was generally receiving verbal condemnation. As he drafted the Declaration of Independence in 1776, Thomas Jefferson denounced the trade as the tyrannical and cruel work of George III, but other slaveholder signatories felt this was an embarrassing overstatement and removed the phrases. In 1787, at the making of the US constitution, it was accepted that no union would emerg…
Slaves and Scholars
Slavery in its full-blown form is hereditary bondage, the existence of a group at the bottom of society without legal rights. It is identified as prospering in regions where land is readily available and labour in short supply, so that people rather than territory are the most obviously valuable asset. Its flowering in the Americas as a powerful agent of economic development has left a difficult legacy for the Western world and, as a result, it h…
Dublin, Sweet City
In the case of Cork and Belfast, West Indian trade had played a formative role in urban growth. Dublin presents a more complex pattern; seat of government, dominant port, woollen manufacturing centre, national linen market, many strands came together to produce the impressive expansion of Ireland’s capital from a population of 60,000 in 1700 to 180,000 in 1800. Like Cork and Belfast, Dublin shared in the export of those products permitted by trad…
Conclusion
The development of black slavery in the Americas illustrates the inexorable power of economics. The number of Africans who were exported across the Atlantic in the nineteenth century suggests that the abolition of the trade was ineffective, that as long as the expanding plantation system required slave labour, that labour continued to arrive. However as the nineteenth century progressed, the amount of land suitable for plantation crops began to s…
Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery
This book tackles a hitherto neglected topic by presenting Ireland as very much a part of the Black Atlantic world. It shows how slaves and sugar produced economic and political change in Eighteenth-c
Banishment in the Early Atlantic World
This is a wide-ranging book, diverse in subject matter and chronological in approach. The chosen term ‘banishment’ is described as a ‘catch all’ for the many ways in which the English/British autho
Ireland, slavery, antislavery, post-slavery and empire
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. Both discoveries were the work of lone pioneers. Meanwhile political developments after the Second World War produced American historians determined to understand this te…
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