[Many thanks to the Caribbean Studies Association for sharing this item in their newsletter.] Edited by Finola O’Kane and Ciarán O’Neill, Eire, slavery and the Caribbean: Interdisciplinary views (Manchester College Press) shall be out on April 29, 2023.
Description: Eire, slavery and the Caribbean attracts collectively a various group of contributors to discover the various and various methods through which Eire and the Caribbean share an interlocking Atlantic historical past. Irish identities stretched from indentured servants to nice planters, and Irishmen have been additionally subversive gamers in British imperial contexts.
The Caribbean was the crucible of Atlantic slavery and the plantation system that sustained it, and this shared historical past will not be all the time a cushty one. Reluctant topics of the primary English empire, Irish folks however enslaved others from 1620-1830 and have been usually on the reducing fringe of extractive colonialism. Steadily inhabiting a handy gray space between empires, Irish retailers and enslavers operated throughout the Danish, Spanish and French empires in addition to the British empire. With many Irish folks first experiencing colonialism at dwelling, this opens a collection of surprising avenues and wealthy ironies for the contributors to untangle and interrogate.
Constructing on the sterling work of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership Challenge at College Faculty London, in addition to the pioneering scholarship of Nini Rodgers, this assortment brings collectively the work of literary students, architectural historians, historians of colonialism, and artwork historians. The result’s a novel exploration of the deep and sophisticated relationship between two Island archipelagos within the 1620-1830 interval of peak colonialism.
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