Moral commerce : Quakers and the Transatlantic boycott of the slave labor economy / Julie L. Holcomb.
Material type: TextDescription: xiii, 252 pages ; 24 cmISBN: 9780801452086; 0801452082Subject(s): Antislavery movements -- United States -- History | Quaker abolitionists -- United States | Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History | Quaker abolitionists -- Great BritainDDC classification: 326.8 HOL LOC classification: E441 | .H69 2016Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: a principle both moral and commercial -- Prize goods: the Quaker origins of the slave-labor boycott -- Blood-stained sugar: the eighteenth-century British abstention campaign -- Striking at the root of corruption: American Quakers and the boycott of slave labor in the early national period -- I am a man, your brother: Elizabeth Heyrick, abstention, and immediatism -- Woman's heart: free produce and domesticity -- An abstinence baptism: American abolitionism and free produce -- Yards of cotton cloth and pounds of sugar: the transatlantic free produce movement -- Bailing the Atlantic with a spoon: free produce in the 1840s and 1850s -- Conclusion: there is death in the pot!
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