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Moral capital : foundations of British abolitionism / Christopher Leslie Brown.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Christopher Leslie, author.
- Series:
- Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--Great Britain--History.
- Slavery.
- Abolitionists--Great Britain--History.
- Abolitionists.
- Liberty--Great Britain--History.
- Liberty.
- Great Britain--Race relations.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Foreign relations.
- Great Britain--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (497 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Introduction; PART I: Values and Practice in Conflict; CHAPTER 1. Antislavery without Abolitionism; PART II: The Conflict Realized; CHAPTER 2. The Politics of Slavery in the Years of Crisis; CHAPTER 3. Granville Sharp and the Obligations of Empire; PART III: The Search for Solutions; CHAPTER 4. British Concepts of Emancipation in the Age of the American Revolution; CHAPTER 5. Africa, Africans, and the Idea of Abolition; PART IV: The Conflict Resolved; CHAPTER 6. British Evangelicals and Caribbean Slavery after the American War
- CHAPTER 7. The Society of Friends and the Antislavery Identity EPILOGUE: Moral Capital; Index;
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908780-7-6
- 1-4696-0099-4
- OCLC:
- 967521769
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