Polemical pain : slavery, cruelty, and the rise of humanitarianism /
" ... Shows how the debate over slavery's cruelty played a large, unrecognized role in shaping moral categories that remain pertinent today"--Jacket, page [3].
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
©2011.
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Colección: | New studies in American intellectual and cultural history.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Self-denial, Martyrdom, and the formation of Quaker humanitarianism
- Humanity, human nature, and the problem of cruelty
- Moral responsibility and removal, 1800-1832
- Politicizing humaneness, 1832-1839
- Suited for slavery, 1840-1852
- The contradictions of benevolence, 1852-1861.