Author Fionnghuala Sweeney and Bruce Baker

Fionnghuala Sweeney and Bruce Baker

Fionnghuala Sweeney is Reader in American and Black Atlantic Literature at Newcastle University. Her research and teaching encompass 19th-century US Studies, African American literature and culture, literary ecologies, Black Atlantic studies, and Afromodernism. She has published on Frederick Douglass; Afromodernisms; the US and Cuban slave narrative; Ireland, Britain, and slavery; travel writing; visual culture; and Paul Robeson, amongst other things. Bruce E. Baker is Reader in American History at Newcastle University, where his research and teaching interests centre on aspects of the American South in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He has published on historical memory, labour history, Reconstruction, lynching, the cotton trade, and the underground economy of New Orleans. He is a past editor of the journal American Nineteenth Century History.

Moses Roper, The First Fugitive Slave Lecturer in Ireland, 1838

Fionnghuala Sweeney and Bruce Baker

Articles, Issue 9 2020

Born into slavery in North Carolina around 1815, Moses Roper is a significant if understudied figure in Irish studies, Black Atlantic studies, and American studies more generally. His flight to the United Kingd... Read More...

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Moses Roper, The First Fugitive Slave Lecturer in Ireland, 1838