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| Titre : | Africans in eighteenth-century Ireland (2002) |
| Auteurs : | W. A. HART, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Irish Historical Studies (vol. 33 n 129 2002) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 19-32 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | About noon on Sunday 19 October 1777 there was a stir of attention in one corner of St Stephen's Green in Dublin. Asx the Freeman's Journal reported: 'A female black and child ... was so closely pressed by the multitude of people crowding round, and staring at her, that being much affrighted, in vain she endeavoured to retire, [...]' It is easy to visualise the scene: the intimidating presence of the Sunday crowd building up around the pair, the frightened mother, the weeping child clinging to her. The story is told sympathetically; it is a minor incident but, one might think, revealing |
| Pays de publication : | Irlande |
| Mention de responsabilité : | W. A. Hart |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
