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Moral commerce : Quakers and the Transatlantic boycott of the slave labor economy / Julie L. Holcomb.

LIBRA E441 .H69 2016
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Holcomb, Julie, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Antislavery movements--United States--History.
Antislavery movements.
Antislavery movements--Great Britain--History.
Quaker abolitionists--United States.
Quaker abolitionists.
Quaker abolitionists--Great Britain.
History.
Great Britain.
United States.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:
xiii, 252 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2016.
Contents:
Introduction: a principle both moral and commercial
Prize goods: the Quaker origins of the slave-labor boycott
Blood-stained sugar: the eighteenth-century British abstention campaign
Striking at the root of corruption: American Quakers and the boycott of slave labor in the early national period
I am a man, your brother: Elizabeth Heyrick, abstention, and immediatism
Woman's heart: free produce and domesticity
An abstinence baptism: American abolitionism and free produce
Yards of cotton cloth and pounds of sugar: the transatlantic free produce movement
Bailing the Atlantic with a spoon: free produce in the 1840s and 1850s
Conclusion: there is death in the pot!
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780801452086
0801452082
OCLC:
947954130

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