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Moral Commerce : Quakers and the Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy /
How can the simple choice of a men's suit be a moral statement and a political act? When the suit is made of free-labor wool rather than slave-grown cotton. In Moral Commerce, Julie L. Holcomb traces the genealogy of the boycott of slave labor from its seventeenth-century Quaker origins through...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Cornell University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: a principle both moral and commercial
- Prize goods: the Quaker origins of the slave-labor boycott
- Blood-stained sugar: the eighteenth-century British abstention campaign
- Striking at the root of corruption: American Quakers and the boycott of slave labor in the early national period
- I am a man, your brother: Elizabeth Heyrick, abstention, and immediatism
- Woman's heart: free produce and domesticity
- An abstinence baptism: American abolitionism and free produce
- Yards of cotton cloth and pounds of sugar: the transatlantic free produce movement
- Bailing the Atlantic with a spoon: free produce in the 1840s and 1850s
- Conclusion: there is death in the pot!