The Irish freedom cause in America allied openly with slaveholding interests.

Evidence

The prominence in the Repeal movement of the son of the slave-holding President was the concentrated expression of the contradiction at the heart of this narrative: the man who hated tyranny in every form and was the leading spokesman in America for the struggle for Irish freedom was at the same time identified with what O’Connell had called the “worst of all aristocracies—that of the human skin,” the slaveholders of America, who would find their reward “in the deepest hell, [where] there is a depth still more profound.” — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 75

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Irish absorption into whiteness helped sustain slavery rather than vice versa. — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 261; Irish nationalists like John Mitchel openly embraced slavery in America — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 125; The Irish freedom struggle made common cause with American slaveholders. — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 75

Broader Connections

• Irish absorption into whiteness helped sustain slavery rather than vice versa. #corroborates (0.85) — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 261