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Capitalism and antislavery : British mobilization in comparative perspective / by Seymour Drescher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Drescher, Seymour.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Antislavery movements--Great Britain.
- Antislavery movements.
- Great Britain.
- Capitalism--Great Britain.
- Capitalism.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Great Britain.
- Enslaved persons.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--British colonies.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--French colonies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 300 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1987, c1986.
- Contents:
- 1 The Foundations of Slavery and Antislavery 1
- 2 Border Skirmish: Neither Wages nor the Whip 25
- 3 The Distinctiveness of British Abolitionist Mobilization 50
- 4 The Breakthrough 1787-92 67
- 5 The Impact of Popular Mobilization in Britain and the Caribbean 89
- 6 God's Work: Antislavery and Religious Mobilization 111
- 7 Class Conflict, Hegemony and the Costs of Antislavery 135
- 8 Antislavery and Capitalism 162.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 269-291.
- ISBN:
- 0195205340
- OCLC:
- 13760775
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