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

Author/Creator:

Brown, Christopher Leslie, author.

Publication:

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.

Series:

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

Format/Description:

Book
1 online resource (497 p.)

Subjects:

Slavery -- Great Britain -- History.
Abolitionists -- Great Britain -- History.
Liberty -- Great Britain -- History.
Great Britain -- Race relations.
Great Britain -- Foreign relations.
Great Britain -- Politics and government.

Form/Genre:

Electronic books.

Language:

English

Contents:

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;

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes index.
Description based on print version record.

Contributor:

Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.

ISBN:

1-4696-0099-4

OCLC:

967521769

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