◾️ Before leaving Belfast in January 1846, Frederick Douglass uttered the heartfelt words..
.. "Wherever else I feel myself to be a stranger, I will remember I have a home in Belfast."
It was Thomas McCabe, the Presbyterian radical, abolitionist and United Irishman who kept…
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@1798walkingtour
Thomas McCabe owned the land where St Malachy’s College on The Antrim now stands… originally known as Vicinage..
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@JammyRed79
Indeed. St Malachys is now built on the site McCabes house. The original well is still there.
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@1798walkingtour
What happened to Presbyterians to turn them from the freethinking radicals who seeded the American rebellion into ardent (sed virent) supporters of English rule in Ireland? (DoI: raised Presbyterian)
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@1798walkingtour
I am convinced that there is an untapped socialist mindset in the North of Ireland on both sides of the divide... we are good people.
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@1798walkingtour
Such an honourable act, by such an honourable free-thinking individual, regardless of whichever 'religion'.
#SpiritOf1798
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@Warrenmcadam
Yes yet to their eternal shame Liverpool Bristol and Glasgow got rich off the slave trade
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@1798walkingtour
Saint Patrick was brought to Ireland as a slave .
Ireland has plenty of slaves all over the Island for thousands of years I’d suspect .
What this documentary means is that the African slave trade , the one communists claim was the only one in existence or that mattered or
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@McdadeNicholas
This is a beautiful building. I walk past it often and wonder why it’s sitting idle and left to rot without ever knowing the history of it. So many beautiful old buildings like this in Belfast.
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@1798walkingtour
The Irish were among the first ppl to become slaves, innocent children as young as 9yro playing outside were kidnapped & sent to Jamaica etc to work the sugar cane fields their parents & families never knew where their child was
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@Molocus2
The slave trade did take hold in Ireland, as shown by the names of those compensated when the trade in the British Isles was ended. W/thanks to
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@1798walkingtour
Slave trade still happened in Ireland. “Dublin was one of the largest and busiest ports in Britain or Ireland throughout the era of the triangular slave trade and yet slavery barely figures in popular memory or heritage.” .
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