Liam Hogan

@Limerick1914

Librarian & Historian. Researching Slavery - Memory - Power.

Limerick City, Ireland
limerick.academia.edu/LiamHogan
Joined March 2012
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  2. 6 hours ago

    Who have you LEARNED the most from who you follow on Twitter?

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  3. 6 hours ago

    A society where a convicted child murderer went unpunished (white) and a person suspected of a conspiracy could be burned alive (black)

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  4. 6 hours ago

    Initially Bullock was sentenced to death for this murder, but the council later pleaded for leniency and he was released.

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  5. 6 hours ago

    8. Years. Old. Pennsylvania Gazette, 24 Feb 1742.

    5:57 PM - 14 Apr 2016 · Details
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  6. 6 hours ago

    Just imported from Antigua. Coffee, sugar, and people. (Pennsylvania Gazette, 26 June 1740)

    5:49 PM - 14 Apr 2016 · Details
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  7. Apr 13

    “for five hundred years the essence of being black is that you can be transported. anywhere. anytime....”

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  8. 21 hours ago

    "It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue." Edward R. Murrow (1964)

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  9. 21 hours ago

    "The speed of communications is wondrous to behold."

  11. Apr 13

    A fresh sample of the "Irish slaves" discourse on Facebook.

    12:08 PM - 13 Apr 2016 · Details
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  12. Apr 11

    Political acceptance came with welcome from maj. 'white man's party,' the Democrats. Thus saw off the Know-Nothgs

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  13. Apr 10

    a "Bastard freedom" is similar to what Douglass described as America's "Bastard Republicanism" during his speech in Limerick in 1845.

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  14. Apr 10

    William Lloyd Garrison quoted this poem during a speech in 1843 and I imagine it also influenced Frederick Douglass. The reference to

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  15. Apr 10

    "Oh! Freedom! Freedom! how I hate thy cant!" (from 'To the Lord Viscount Forbes from the City of Washington', 1806)

    1:35 PM - 10 Apr 2016 · Details
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  16. Apr 10

    While this notice is from an earlier period it reminds me of a Thomas Moore poem which burns with anger and contempt at American hypocrisy.

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  17. Apr 10

    "the blind Negro called America...who is not as free as he sometimes pretends to be." (PA Gazette, 4 Mar 1736)

    1:22 PM - 10 Apr 2016 · Details
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  19. Apr 10

    Conversation I'm hearing: "There were more Irish slaves than black slaves." What.

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  20. Apr 10

    John Danby wishes to sell his "young breeding Negro Woman" and a mill for grinding malt (PA Gazette, 18 Jul 1734)

    8:47 AM - 10 Apr 2016 · Details
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