Moral capital
Subtitle: foundations of British abolitionism
By: Christopher Leslie Brown.
Contributors: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
Publisher: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press; The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780807830345; 9780807856987
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
Description: "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"--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.