Preface: Great Brunswick Street -- Chronology -- Prologue: Commercial Wharf -- Part I. Republican slavery to monarchial freedom, Atlantic world, August 1845 -- "They need no credentials" -- RMS Cambria -- "Throw him overboard" -- Part III. Ireland, August 1845-January 1846 -- Dublin -- Friend Webb -- A storm over Drayton -- The Liberator -- Cork -- The apostle of temperance -- Limerick -- Belfast -- "The half has not been told" -- Part III. Britain, January 1846-April 1847 -- Britain -- "Lonely pilgrimage" -- RMS Cambria redux -- "This piteous storm" -- America, 1847-1865 -- "I am now buying type" -- "Mr. Editor, if you please" -- "Ourselves alone" -- "Self-made man" -- "Abolition war" -- Part V. Reckonings, Atlantic world and beyond, 1865-1895 -- "Traced like a wounded man, by the blood" -- Denouements -- Janus days -- "A height above the work and the world" -- A note on sources. |