Bibliograph

Moral capital, foundations of British abolitionism, Christopher Leslie Brown

Type

Label

Moral capital, foundations of British abolitionism, Christopher Leslie Brown

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Moral capital

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

62290468

Responsibility statement

Christopher Leslie Brown

Sub title

foundations of British abolitionism

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. Brown instead connects the shift from sentiment to action to changing views of empire and nation in Britain, particularly the anxieties and dislocations spurred by the American Revolution"--P. [4] of cover

Table Of Contents

I: Values and practice in conflict-- Antislavery without abolitionism -- II: The conflict realized -- The politics of slavery in the years of crisis -- Granville Sharp and the obligations of empire -- III: The search for solutions -- British concepts of emancipation in the age of the American Revolution -- Africa, Africans, and the idea of abolition -- III: The conflict resolved -- British evangelicals and Caribbean slavery after the American war -- The society of friends and the antislavery identity

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