As a lever gains power by its distance from the fulcrum
Tracing Frederick Douglass in the Irish Atlantic World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3131707 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adrian N Mulligan (Bucknell University), Adrian Mulligan (Bucknell University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 395-414 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14649365.2016.1184709 |
| OpenAlex | W2395929818 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 35 |
Following the publication of his autobiography and fearing recapture and return to slavery, in 1845 the abolitionist Frederick Douglass embarked on an 18-month lecture tour of the United Kingdom, during which his thinking on the subject of abolitionism developed significantly. While this period in Douglass’ life has received only modest scholarly attention, even less has been paid to the fact that the tour commenced in Ireland – then arguably more akin to a colony than an integral region of the UK. Drawing on archival research and scholarship that advocates for a more interconnected sense of place, a more oceanic perspective on history and consequently a better sense of how political activity is forged relationally, the paper traces Douglass’ journey through the Irish nodes of the abolitionist Atlantic network. In the process, it considers the degree to which Douglass was influenced by this colonial and deeply sectarian society, it illuminates a forgotten world of Irish abolitionist activity, and contributes to debates regarding intersecting histories and geographies in the Atlantic World
Abolitionism · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art history · Atlantic World · Biography · Colonialism · Irish · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Scholarship · Sociology · Subject (documents · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Scottish History and National Identity
Emigrants and exiles
The black Atlantic
Solidarity
Activists beyond Borders
A Union Forever
Resistance, Space and Political Identities
“The Brothers on the Walls”
A war of words
Ireland of the welcomes’? racism and anti-racism in nineteenth-century Ireland
The Frederick Douglass Papers. Series One
The Frederick Douglas Papers. Series One
Ireland and the Black Atlantic in the eighteenth century
Global Lives
Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery
Indian Ocean Studies and the ‘new thalassology’
Writing travels
The power of speech
Nationalism in Ireland
Dublin
Equiano in Belfast
Narrative Reversals and Power Exchanges
Giant's Causeway
Activists beyond borders
Atlantic History
"The Mediterranean and "the New Thalassology
Trappings of Nationalism in Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave
He Made Us Laugh Some
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |