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Embracing Emancipation : A Transatlantic History of Irish Americans, Slavery, and the American Union, 1840-1865 / Ian Delahanty.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Delahanty, Ian, author.
- Series:
- Reconstructing America (Series)
- Reconstructing America Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Antislavery movements--United States.
- Antislavery movements.
- Slavery--United States.
- Slavery.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (339 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- No detailed description available for "Embracing Emancipation".
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. "We want no slave lecturing here": The Irish Critique of Abolitionism
- 2. "Over the broad Atlantic": Abolitionist Appeals to Emigrants and Immigrants
- 3. Irish-American Unionism and Slavery
- 4. "As if I was a common Irishman": The Irish-American Critique of Antislavery
- 5. Irish Americans and the Union War
- 6. Unionism and Emancipation on the Home Front and Battlefield
- 7. "All true Republicans": Irish-American Leaders and Emancipation
- Conclusion: Irish America and Ireland after the Civil War
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781531506896
- 1531506895
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