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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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