@inbook{d5af8b1b6cf14799b4bd15455e7c50ce,
title = "Anti-Catholicism and the Rhetoric of Slavery in Irish Writing, c. 1690–1730",
abstract = "Anti-Catholicism was, in the words of one historian, the {\textquoteleft}single most salient feature{\textquoteright} in the mindset of eighteenth-century Ireland{\textquoteright}s Anglican ruling class. This chapter traces one aspect of its expression in Ireland{\textquoteright}s Anglophone literary culture. Throughout the period discussed in this chapter, anti-Catholicism was routinely and repeatedly articulated through opposition to {\textquoteleft}slavery{\textquoteright}. From William King{\textquoteright}s denunciation in 1691 of the {\textquoteleft}Slavery and Destruction designed against the Kingdom and Protestants of Ireland{\textquoteright} by James II to Jonathan Swift{\textquoteright}s description of the country as a {\textquoteleft}land of slaves{\textquoteright} in 1727, the association was constant. Concentrating on the period between the defeat of James II in 1690 and Irish House of Lords{\textquoteright} {\textquoteleft}Report on the State of Popery{\textquoteright} in 1731, this chapter examines what exactly was meant by {\textquoteleft}slavery{\textquoteright} in such contexts and why it was rhetorically and conceptually intertwined with Catholicism. ",
keywords = "Ireland, William King, Jonathan Swift, Robert Molesworth, George Farquhar, Slavery, Anti-Catholicism",
author = "James Ward",
year = "2020",
month = aug,
day = "25",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-42882-2",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-030-42881-5",
series = "Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "199--216",
editor = "Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille and Geraldine Vaughan",
booktitle = "Anti-Catholicism in Britain and Ireland, 1600–2000",
address = "United Kingdom",
}