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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460607803321

Autore

Brown Christopher Leslie

Titolo

Moral capital : foundations of British abolitionism / / Christopher Leslie Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2006

ISBN

1-4696-0099-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (497 p.)

Collana

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

Disciplina

306.3620941

Soggetti

Slavery - Great Britain - History

Abolitionists - Great Britain - History

Liberty - Great Britain - History

Electronic books.

Great Britain Race relations

Great Britain Foreign relations

Great Britain Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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;