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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824447303321

Autore

Turley David <1941->

Titolo

The culture of English antislavery, 1780-1860 / / David Turley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1991

ISBN

1-134-97744-1

0-203-28575-1

1-280-32616-6

1-134-97745-X

0-203-16933-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Disciplina

326/.0942

Soggetti

Antislavery movements - Great Britain

Abolitionists - Great Britain - History

Social reformers - Great Britain - History

Slavery and the church - Great Britain - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-280) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; APPROACH AND CONTEXTS; ARGUMENT AND IDEOLOGY; MAKING ABOLITIONISTS: Engaging with the world; BEING ABOLITIONISTS: Harmony and tension in the internal culture of antislavery; ABOLITIONISTS AND THE MIDDLE-CLASS REFORM COMPLEX; ANTISLAVERY, RADICALISM AND PATRIOTISM; THE ANGLO-AMERICAN CONNECTION; CONCLUSIONS; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a fresh overall account of organised antislavery by focusing on the active minority of abolutionists throughout the country. The analysis of their culture of reform demonstrates the way in which alliances of diverse religious groups roused public opinion and influenced political leaders. The resulting definition of the distinctive `reform mentality' links antislavery to other efforts at moral and social improvement and highlights its contradictory relations to the social effects of industrialization and the growth of liberalism.