Liam HoganDec 1, 2022

“I would have been well pleased to have seen the island and all its inhabitants sunk.”

An exiled United Irishman writes about the horror of racial slavery in Martinique. #IrelandAndSlavery

https://medium.com/@limerick1914/a-united-irishman-witnesses-chattel-slavery-in-martinique-1b4080e2a37f

“I would have been well pleased to have seen the island and all its inhabitants sunk.”

After the Irish Rebellion of 1798 an estimated one thousand five hundred Irish rebels were transported to the West Indies. One of those deported was Andrew Bryson who was forced into compulsory…

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Liam HoganDec 1, 2022
During the early 20th century John Mitchel was hailed by many in Ireland as being singularly emblematic of the Irish struggle for independence. Yet Mitchel was nonetheless a virulent pro-slavery racist and propagandist for the Confederacy. #IrelandAndSlavery https://limerick1914.medium.com/john-mitchel-white-supremacist-1fcaf85e4e4e
John Mitchel. White Supremacist. - Liam Hogan - Medium

When John Mitchel died on the 20 March 1875 many people in Ireland mourned his passing as one of the most revered Irish patriots. He had just sailed to victory in a by-election in Co.Tipperary and…

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Liam HoganNov 28, 2022

A short-lived Cork Slave Trading Company?

#IrelandAndSlavery

https://limerick1914.medium.com/a-short-lived-cork-slave-trading-company-76f1a7a2b10e

A short-lived Cork Slave Trading Company? - Liam Hogan - Medium

If you are researching the history of the transatlantic slave trade, you will know that the Slave Voyages Database is an essential resource. I recently used it to review the known slave trading…

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Liam HoganNov 26, 2022
American slaves ‘emancipated’ in Monaghan #IrelandAndSlavery https://medium.com/@limerick1914/american-slaves-emancipated-in-monaghan-37de3737d26a
American slaves ‘emancipated’ in Monaghan - Liam Hogan - Medium

I recently found this interesting account of slaves being brought to 1830s Ireland by their Irish owner in the Harvard Law School Caselaw Access Project database. This history was disclosed during an…

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Liam HoganNov 20, 2022
Charles Lenox Remond in Limerick and the failure of the Anti-Slavery Irish Address (1841) #IrelandAndSlavery
https://hcommons.org/deposits/objects/hc:20872/datastreams/CONTENT/content
Liam HoganNov 16, 2022

An Irish overseer’s account of the Jamaican slave revolt (1831-’32)
#IrelandAndSlavery

https://limerick1914.medium.com/an-irish-overseers-sympathetic-account-of-the-jamaican-slave-revolt-1831-32-7dfd986b5f74

An Irish overseer’s account of the Jamaican slave revolt (1831-’32)

According to his autobiography, Benjamin McMahon was born in Ireland and migrated to South America in 1818 to enlist as a soldier in Simon Bolivar’s army of liberation. In 1819 he left this station…

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Liam HoganNov 12, 2022
A Letter to John Mitchel from French Republican exiles in New York (1854) #IrelandAndSlavery https://limerick1914.medium.com/a-letter-to-john-mitchel-d6a4644d6c1b
A Letter to John Mitchel from French Republican exiles in New York (1854)

Le Republicain, of New York, was started by two French exiles who had escaped from the notorious French penal settlement at Cayenne, otherwise known as Devil’s Island. They were but two of the 239…

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As I post my work here I’m going to tag it #IrelandAndSlavery so that it will be easy to find in the search. There is also a new Mastodon feature on the way where you will be able to follow hashtags like you follow accounts.
Liam HoganNov 12, 2022
An Irish Slave in Antigua (1736): What does his plight tell us about Ireland’s historical relationship with the Black Atlantic? #IrelandAndSlavery #Antigua
https://limerick1914.medium.com/an-irish-slave-in-antigua-7acfb106a8e9
An Irish slave in Antigua - Liam Hogan - Medium

In October 1736 a cadre of enslaved people in Antigua allegedly planned to free the colony’s slave population by overthrowing the British slavocracy that had enchattled and exploited tens of…

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Liam HoganNov 12, 2022
All of my work on the ‘Irish Slaves’ meme (2015-2020) #IrelandAndSlavery https://limerick1914.medium.com/all-of-my-work-on-the-irish-slaves-meme-2015-16-4965e445802a
All of my work on the “Irish slaves” meme (2015–’23)

What follows is a full list of all my recent work challenging contemporary propaganda (based primarily on ahistorical blogs and memes) which equate indentured servitude or penal servitude with…

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