{"product_id":"embracing-emancipation-9781531506865","title":"Embracing Emancipation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChallenges conventional narratives of the Civil War era that emphasize Irish Americans' unceasing opposition to Black freedom\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmbracing Emancipation \u003c\/i\u003etackles a perennial question in scholarship on the Civil War era: Why did Irish Americans, who claimed to have been oppressed in Ireland, so vehemently opposed the antislavery movement in the United States? Challenging conventional answers to this question that focus on the cultural, political, and economic circumstances of the Irish in America, \u003ci\u003eEmbracing Emancipation \u003c\/i\u003elocates the origins of Irish American opposition to antislavery in famine-era Ireland. There, a distinctively Irish critique of abolitionism emerged during the 1840s, one that was adopted and adapted by Irish Americans during the sectional crisis. The Irish critique of abolitionism meshed with Irish Americans' belief that the American Union would uplift Irish people on both sides of the Atlanticif only it could be saved from the forces of disunion\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ME - Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409990754647,"sku":"9781531506865","price":92.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781531506865.jpg?v=1730508602","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/embracing-emancipation-9781531506865","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}