Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797): 'In every respect on par with Europeans' -- Moses Roper (1815-1891). 'A religious turn of mind' -- Charles Lenox Remond (1810-1873). 'A mission of humanity' -- Frederick Douglass (1818-1895). 'Agitate, Agitate, Agitate!' -- William Wells Brown (c.1814-1884). 'A cultivated fugitive' -- Henry Highland Garnet (1815-1882). 'A staunch new organizationist' -- Edmund Kelly (1817-1884). 'A Family Redeemed from Bondage' -- Samuel Ringgold Ward (1817-c.1866). 'A Christian Abolitionist'? -- Benjamin Benson (1818- ?). 'Drunkenness ... worse than slavery' -- Sarah Parker Remond (1826-1894). 'Remarkably feminine and graceful'.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Notes 1-5 -- 16-39 -- 40-41 -- Part I: The 'Old' Poor Law, c. 1640-1845 -- 1 An 'Un-National Town' -- The Industrial Capital of Ireland -- The Athens of the North? -- Housing and Diet -- Strategies for Survival -- A Poor Law for Ireland -- The Hungry Forties? -- Notes 1-35 -- 36-71 -- 72-119 -- Part II: A National Crisis, c. 1845-47 -- 2 A 'Man-Made Famine' -- An Unusual Blight -- Local Responses -- 'Absolute Danger of Starvation' -- 'A District Distinct from Belfast'. Suffering in Ballymacarrett -- A Divided Society -- Notes 1-45 -- 46-85 -- 3 'All the Horrors of Famine' -- Belfast in Crisis -- Protest and Riot -- 'Gnawing and Deadly Hunger' -- Desolation and Distress Unparalleled -- 'The Glorious Principle of Self- Reliance' -- Poverty on the Streets -- Notes 1-3 -- 4-46 -- 47-94 -- 95-100 -- 4 An Droch-Shaol. Disease and Death in Black '47 -- Institutional Responses to Disease -- Fever Follows Famine -- Great and Peculiar -- Rising Mortality and Multiple Burials -- 'Skibbereen Brought to our Doors' -- 'An Increasing Scarcity of Money' -- The Amended Poor Law -- Judgment upon Our Land -- Notes 1-35 -- 36-83 -- 84-126 -- 127-148 -- Part III: A Divided Town -- 5 Public and Private Responses -- Government Relief. The Amended Poor Law -- Private Philanthropy -- Women and Philanthropy -- 'Thorough Evangelization' -- Charity and Conversion -- The Bible and Protestant Dominion -- Notes 1-12 -- 13-56 -- 57-102 -- 103-123 -- 6 Conflict and Rebellion -- Rising to the Challenge. The Role of the Belfast Workhouse -- Emigration and Removal -- 'Orange and Green Will Carry the Day' -- The War of the Placards and the 1848 Uprising -- The Rate-in-Aid Dispute -- 7 'The Crisis is Passed' -- The Path to Recovery -- The Cholera Epidemic -- Orange against Green -- A Royal Visit.
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