This book interrogates the complex reciprocity in the relationship between two island archipelagos (Ireland and the Caribbean) at the peak of the slave economy.
Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean is a complex and ground-breaking collection of essays. Grounded in history, it integrates perspectives from art historians, architectural and landscape historians, and literary scholars to produce a genuinely interdisciplinary collection that spans from 1620-1830: the high point of European colonialism. By exploring imperial, national and familial relationships from their building blocks of plantation, migration, property and trade, it finds new ways to re-create and question how slavery made the Atlantic world.
This book interrogates the complex reciprocity in the relationship between two island archipelagos (Ireland and the Caribbean) at the peak of the slave economy.
Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean is a complex and ground-breaking collection of essays. Grounded in history, it integrates perspectives from art historians, architectural and landscape historians, and literary scholars to produce a genuinely interdisciplinary collection that spans from 1620-1830: the high point of European colonialism. By exploring imperial, national and familial relationships from their building blocks of plantation, migration, property and trade, it finds new ways to re-create and question how slavery made the Atlantic world.
Foreword - Sir Hilary Beckles
Introduction – Finola O’Kane and Ciaran O’Neill
Part I: Setting Out the Terrain
1. Setting out the terrain: Ireland and the Caribbean in the
eighteenth century - David Dickson
2. From Perfidious Papists to Prosperous Planters: Making Irish
elites in the early modern English Caribbean - Jenny Shaw
3. Free, and unfree – Ireland and Barbados, 1620-60- David
Brown
4. Trade, plunder and Irishmen in early English Jamaica – Nuala
Zahedieh
5. Doing business in the wartime Caribbean: John Byrn, Irish
merchant of Kingston, Jamaica (September – October 1756) - Thomas
M. Truxes
Part II: Consolidating Territories
6. Ireland and British Colonial Slave-ownership 1763-1833 - Nick
Draper
7. Soldiers, settlers, slavers: Irish lives on the Spanish
borderlands of North America and the Caribbean in the revolutionary
1790s- José Shane Brownrigg-Gleeson
8. Searching for sovereignties: the formation of the penal laws and
slave codes in Ireland and the British Caribbean, c. 1680 to c.
1720 - Aaron Graham
9. Comparing Imperial design strategies; The Franco-Irish
plantations of Saint-Domingue - Finola O'Kane
10. Eyre Coote, the House of Assembly and the Defence of Jamaica,
1806-8 - David Fleming
11. In search of excess: Lambert Blair and his appetites - Ciaran
O'Neill
Part III: Comparative Perspectives
12. Two islands, many forts: Ireland and Bermuda in 1624 - Emily
Mann
13. Imperial barrack-building in 18C Ireland and Jamaica– Charles
Ivar McGrath
14. The architectures of empire in Jamaica: the Irish legacy
Louis P. Nelson
15. Designed in parallel or in translation?: The connected
landscapes of Kelly’s Pen, Jamaica and Westport, Co. Mayo - Finola
O’Kane
16. Formations and Deformations of Empire: Maria Edgeworth and the
West Indies - Claire Connolly
17. How the Irish became black- Natalie Zacek
18. ‘Where are you actually from?’: Racial issues in the Irish
context – Sandrine Uwase Ndahiro
Index
Finola O'Kane is Professor in Architecture at University
College Dublin
Ciaran O'Neill is Ussher Associate Professor in History at
Trinity College Dublin
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