Moral Capital Foundations of British Abolitionism

Name: Moral Capital Foundations of British Abolitionism
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ISBN: 9780807856987

ISBN-10: 0807856983

ISBN-13: 9780807856987

Edition: 2006

Authors: Christopher Leslie Brown

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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 at the time, particularly the anxieties and dislocations spurred by the American Revolution. The debate over the political rights of the North American colonies pushed slavery to the fore, Brown argues, giving antislavery organizing the moral legitimacy in Britain it had never had before. The first emancipation schemes were dependent on…

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List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 3/27/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.11" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Christopher Leslie Brown is associate professor of history at Rutgers University and coeditor of Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age.




Antislavery without abolitionism



The politics of slavery in the years of crisis



Granville Sharp and the obligations of empire



British concepts of emancipation in the age of the American revolution



Africa, Africans, and the idea of abolition



British evangelicals and Caribbean slavery after the American war



The society of friends and the antislavery identity


Epilogue : moral capital