Cargando…

Moral Commerce : Quakers and the Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy.

In 'Moral Commerce', Julie L. Holcomb traces the genealogy of the boycott of slave labour from its 17th century Quaker origins through its late 19th century decline. In their failures and in their successes, in their resilience and their persistence, antislavery consumers help us understan...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Holcomb, Julie L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, UNITED STATES : Cornell University Press, 2016-09-01 00:00:00.0.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Moral Commerce ; Contents ; List of Illustrations ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction: A Principle Both Moral and Commercial ; 1. Prize Goods: The Quaker Origins of the Slave-Labor Boycott ; 2. Blood-Stained Sugar: The Eighteenth-Century British Abstention Campaign ; 3. Striking at the Root of Corruption: American Quakers and the Boycott in the Early National Period ; 4. I Am a Man, Your Brother: Elizabeth Heyrick, Abstention, and Immediatism ; 5. Woman's Heart: Free Produce and Domesticity ; 6. An Abstinence Baptism: American Abolitionism and Free Produce.
  • 7. Yards of Cotton Cloth and Pounds of Sugar: The Transatlantic Free-Produce Movement 8. Bailing the Atlantic with a Spoon: Free Produce in the 1840s and 1850s ; Conclusion: There Is Death in the Pot! ; Notes ; Index ; A ; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M ; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y.