Social Movements and Cultural Change: The First Abolition Campaign RevisitedTransaction Publishers - 292 pages As a result of the efforts of the Abolition Committee in Great Britain in the half-decade between 1787 and 1792, slavery and the slave trade-previously accepted as necessary evils-were perceived as gross injustices and evils to be eradicated. This volume examines that first abolition movement in order to show how social movements produce and alter meanings, thus bringing about cultural change. |
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abolition campaign Abolition Committee abolition movement abolition struggle abolitionism abolitionists action-structure activities Adam Smith African agenda Anstey antiabolitionists antislavery argument aspects Atlantic Slave Trade became Benezet Britain British society cause challenge Chapter cited Clapham sect collective action collective campaign collective definitions colonies conceptual model conduciveness contends Craton cultural change cultural climate Davis depicted developments Drescher dynamic economic edited effect eighteenth century elaboration empirical Enlightenment especially example existing framing function Gamson Glorious Revolution Granville Sharp historical human ideas ideology important interpretive packages involved issue liberty means ment mercantilist mobilization Montesquieu moral moreover movement actors movement campaign needs opportunity structure organized Parliament planters Porter potential processes protest public discourse Quakers realm reform regarding religious role seen situation slave trade slavery social change social movements Sociology specific structure symbols Sypher Tarrow theme theory tion transformation Walvin West Indian Wilberforce