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This volume brings together one of the most provocative debates among historians in recent years. The centre of controversy is the emergence of the anti-slavery movement in the United States and Britain and the relation of capitalism to the development.

Table of Contents
Preface
Contributors
Introduction / Thomas Bender

PART 1: THE PROBLEM OF SLAVERY IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION,
1770-1823 /DAVID BRION DAVIS
1. What the Abolitionists Were Up Against
2. The Quaker Ethic and the Antislavery
International
3. The Preservation of English Liberty, I

PART 2: THE AHR DEBATE
4. Capitalism and the Origins of the Humanitarian
Sensibility, Part 1 / Thomas L. Haskell
5. Capitalism and the Origins of the Humanitarian
Sensibility, Part 2 / Thomas L. Haskell
6. Reflections on Abolitionism and Ideological Hegemony /
David Brion Davis
7. The Relationship between Capitalism and
Humanitarianism / John Ashworth
8. Convention and Hegemonic Interest in the Debate
over Antislavery: A Reply to Davis and Ashworth /
Thomas L. Haskell

PART 3: THE DEBATE CONTINUED
9. Capitalism, Class, and Antislavery / John Ashworth
10. The Perils of Doing History by Ahistorical Abstraction:
A Reply to Thomas L. Haskell's AHR Forum Reply /
David Brion Davis
Index

The Antislavery Debate

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 2 June 1992
      ISBN-13 9780520077799
      978-0520077799
      ISBN-10 0520077792
      Also in:
      Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This volume brings together one of the most provocative debates among historians in recent years. The centre of controversy is the emergence of the anti-slavery movement in the United States and Britain and the relation of capitalism to the development.

      Table of Contents
      Preface
      Contributors
      Introduction / Thomas Bender

      PART 1: THE PROBLEM OF SLAVERY IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION,
      1770-1823 /DAVID BRION DAVIS
      1. What the Abolitionists Were Up Against
      2. The Quaker Ethic and the Antislavery
      International
      3. The Preservation of English Liberty, I

      PART 2: THE AHR DEBATE
      4. Capitalism and the Origins of the Humanitarian
      Sensibility, Part 1 / Thomas L. Haskell
      5. Capitalism and the Origins of the Humanitarian
      Sensibility, Part 2 / Thomas L. Haskell
      6. Reflections on Abolitionism and Ideological Hegemony /
      David Brion Davis
      7. The Relationship between Capitalism and
      Humanitarianism / John Ashworth
      8. Convention and Hegemonic Interest in the Debate
      over Antislavery: A Reply to Davis and Ashworth /
      Thomas L. Haskell

      PART 3: THE DEBATE CONTINUED
      9. Capitalism, Class, and Antislavery / John Ashworth
      10. The Perils of Doing History by Ahistorical Abstraction:
      A Reply to Thomas L. Haskell's AHR Forum Reply /
      David Brion Davis
      Index

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