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Emancipation Echoes and Clerical Strife Across the West Indies
A reflective dispute over emancipation amid slave uprisings is joined with a critique of press reports. The piece questions alleged slave disaffection, cites the St Kitts insurrection, and urges caution. It also details a church dispute in Kilmore where Rev. Lyons fights suspension and alleges clerical oppression by a bishop, calling for ecclesiastical redress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Kitt’s
Iree
West India
Friends of Negro Emancipation
Marcus Beresford
Drung
Thomas Lyons
Habensel
Lyona
Falding
Buz
Mayer
Thomas A. Lyons
Beresford
Mr. Lyons
Church of Ireland
Tleman
Bia
Leah
Prague
Lyons
Ireland
Kilmore
Killyshandra
Church of Drung
Armagh
T. A. Lyons
Sam
George Kilmore
Sergeant Perrin
Crampton
Blackburne
Woulfe
Sergeant O'Loghblen
Perrin
Woulfe Sargaant
O’loghlen
Oldham
Dublin
Kilkenny
Cobbett
Fishambley Street
Dublin Dispatch
Strokestown
Tuam
Dr. M'Haile
Dublin Evening Mail
Marquis of Hertford
Earl of Rathdowne
George Robert Dawson
Claude Cole Hamilton
Waterford Mail
Nenagh
Inise Curaca
Rawdon Greena
Lea
Queen’s County
John Powell
Greene
Stillorgan
Tughawan Opera
Duntin
Rossini
Madame Kentherland
Amenaide
Braceto Mio
Nicolini
Cesari
Signora Cesari
Madama Keatherland
Dublin Morning Register
Tee Dealers
Ballynacourt
Samuel Smith
Cappoquin
Tipperary Free Preas
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