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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | 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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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "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 sentiment to action to changing views of empire and nation in Britain, particularly the anxieties and dislocations spurred by the American Revolution"--Page 4 of cover. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (496 pages): illustrations |
| Awards: | Frederick Douglass Book Prize, 2007 |
| ISBN: | 9781469600994 |