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Moral Capital : Foundations of British Abolitionism /
"Revisiting the origins of the British antislavery movement of the late eighteenth century, Christopher Leslie Brown challenges prevailing scholarly arguments that locate the roots of abolitionism in economic determinism or bourgeois humanitarianism. Brown instead connects the shift from sentim...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill [North Carolina] :
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,
]2006]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Values and practice in conflict. Antislavery without abolitionism
- The conflict realized. The politics of slavery in the years of crisis. Granville Sharp and the obligations of empire
- The search for solutions. British concepts of emancipation in the age of the American Revolution. Africa, Africans, and the idea of abolition
- The conflict resolved. British evangelicals and Caribbean slavery after the American war. The society of friends and the antislavery identity.