Category Archives: slavery

Alliouagana Festival of the Word 

Posted on by Philip Casey
Alliouagana

I’ve never been to Alliouagana, but it has a special place in my heart, and indeed, in Irish history. Alliouagana is the native name for the island of Montserrat which was originally inhabited by Tainos (Arawaks) moving north from South America along the eastern chain of Caribbean islands, and subsequently occupied by the Kaliganu people [...]

Deleted Chapter from Work-in-Progress 

Posted on by Philip Casey

In England the status of the slave had been gradually improving since Alfred the Great, in that his laws, from the late ninth century, had recognized a slave as having some minimal rights. Ironically in this he may have been influenced by Old Testament passages from Exodus in versions of Irish origin.1 (Exodus 21 contains [...]