Frederick Douglass and Ireland

Frederick Douglass spent four months in Ireland at the end of 1845 that proved to be in his own words ‘transformative’. He reported that for the first time in his life he felt like a man and not a chattel. Whilst in residence he became a spokesperson for the abolition movement but by the time he left the country in early January 1846 he believed that the cause of the slave was the cause of the oppressed everywhere. This book adds new insight into Frederick Douglass and his time in Ireland. Contemporary newspaper accounts of the lectures that Douglass gave during his tour of Ireland (in Dublin Wexford Waterford Cork Limerick and Belfast) have been located and transcribed. The speeches are annotated and accompanied by letters written by Douglass during his stay. In this way for the first time we hear Douglass in his own words. | Frederick Douglass and Ireland In His Own Words