TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Christopher Leslie
AU  - Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
TI  - Moral capital: foundations of British abolitionism 
SN  - 9781469600994
AV  - HT1163 .M673 2006
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Chapel Hill [North Carolina]
PB  - Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Abolitionists
KW  - Liberty
KW  - Enslaved persons
KW  - Emancipation
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Values and practice in conflict. Antislavery without abolitionism --; The conflict realized. The politics of slavery in the years of crisis. Granville Sharp and the obligations of empire --; The search for solutions. British concepts of emancipation in the age of the American Revolution. Africa, Africans, and the idea of abolition --; The conflict resolved. British evangelicals and Caribbean slavery after the American war. The society of friends and the antislavery identity; 2; b
N2  - "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"--Page 4 of cover
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