Antislavery Debate Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation

Name: Antislavery Debate Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation
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ISBN: 9780520077799

ISBN-10: 0520077792

ISBN-13: 9780520077799

Edition: 1992

Authors: Thomas M. Bender, John Ashworth, David Brion Davis, Thomas L. Haskell

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This volume brings together one of the most provocative debates among historians in recent years. The center of controversy is the emergence of the antislavery movement in the United States and Britain and the relation of capitalism to this development. The essays delve beyond these issues, however, to raise a deeper question of historical interpretation: What are the relations between consciousness, moral action, and social change? The debate illustrates that concepts common in historical practice are not so stable as we have thought them to be. It is about concepts as much as evidence, about the need for clarity in using the tools of contemporary historical practice. The participating…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/2/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and director of Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. His previous books include The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, which won a National Book Award and the Bancroft Prize, and The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture which won a Pulitzer Prize.



Preface


Contributors


Introduction




The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823




What the Abolitionists Were Up Against



The Quaker Ethic and the Antislavery International



The Preservation of English Liberty, I



The AHR Debate



Capitalism and the Origins of the Humanitarian Sensibility, Part 1




Capitalism and the Origins of the Humanitarian Sensibility, Part 2




Reflections on Abolitionism and Ideological Hegemony




The Relationship between Capitalism and Humanitarianism




Convention and Hegemonic Interest in the Debate over Antislavery: A Reply to Davis and Ashworth




The Debate Continued



Capitalism, Class, and Antislavery




The Perils of Doing History by Ahistorical Abstraction: A Reply to Thomas L. Haskell's AHR Forum Reply



Index