{"product_id":"the-antislavery-debate-9780520077799","title":"The Antislavery Debate","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Thomas Bender\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART 1: THE PROBLEM OF SLAVERY IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION,\u003cbr\u003e 1770-1823 \/DAVID BRION DAVIS\u003cbr\u003e 1. What the Abolitionists Were Up Against\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Quaker Ethic and the Antislavery\u003cbr\u003e International\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Preservation of English Liberty, I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART 2: THE AHR DEBATE\u003cbr\u003e 4. Capitalism and the Origins of the Humanitarian\u003cbr\u003e Sensibility, Part 1 \/ Thomas L. Haskell\u003cbr\u003e 5. Capitalism and the Origins of the Humanitarian\u003cbr\u003e Sensibility, Part 2 \/ Thomas L. Haskell\u003cbr\u003e 6. Reflections on Abolitionism and Ideological Hegemony \/\u003cbr\u003e David Brion Davis\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Relationship between Capitalism and\u003cbr\u003e Humanitarianism \/ John Ashworth\u003cbr\u003e 8. Convention and Hegemonic Interest in the Debate\u003cbr\u003e over Antislavery: A Reply to Davis and Ashworth \/\u003cbr\u003e Thomas L. Haskell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART 3: THE DEBATE CONTINUED\u003cbr\u003e 9. Capitalism, Class, and Antislavery \/ John Ashworth\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Perils of Doing History by Ahistorical Abstraction:\u003cbr\u003e A Reply to Thomas L. Haskell's AHR Forum Reply \/\u003cbr\u003e David Brion Davis\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402795917655,"sku":"9780520077799","price":24.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520077799.jpg?v=1730481536","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-antislavery-debate-9780520077799","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}