Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture) (Published for the ... History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)

by Christopher Leslie Brown (Author)

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  2006

  $49.68

  Revisiting the origins of the British antislavery movement of the late eighteenth century, this book challenges scholarly arguments that locate the roots of abolitionism in economic determinism or bourgeois humanitarianism. It instead connects the shift from sentiment to action to changing views of empire and nation in Britain at that time.