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Book SynopsisThis 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 ContentsPreface
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
