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. |
Contents
XXVIII | 125 |
XXIX | 127 |
XXX | 129 |
XXXI | 135 |
XXXIII | 136 |
XXXIV | 139 |
XXXV | 143 |
XXXVI | 147 |
X | 39 |
XI | 40 |
XII | 45 |
XIII | 54 |
XIV | 62 |
XV | 69 |
XVI | 75 |
XVII | 76 |
XVIII | 82 |
XIX | 89 |
XX | 94 |
XXI | 97 |
XXII | 100 |
XXIII | 111 |
XXV | 112 |
XXVI | 115 |
XXVII | 120 |
XXXVII | 157 |
XXXVIII | 160 |
XXXIX | 169 |
XL | 193 |
XLI | 197 |
XLII | 207 |
XLIII | 208 |
XLIV | 216 |
XLV | 224 |
XLVI | 232 |
XLVII | 245 |
XLVIII | 265 |
XLIX | 267 |
L | 271 |
LI | 285 |
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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
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Page 80 - The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man; but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
Page 178 - God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Page 177 - To go as pirates and catch up poor negroes or people of another land, that never forfeited life or liberty, and to make them slaves, and sell them, is one of the worst kinds of thievery in the world...
Page 178 - It cannot be, that either war, or contract, can give any man such a property in another as he has in his sheep and oxen. Much less is it possible, that any child of man should ever be born a slave. Liberty is the right of every human creature, as soon as he breathes the vital air; and no human law can deprive him of that right which he derives from the law of nature.
Page 45 - They frame, or assign meaning to and interpret, relevant events and conditions in ways that are intended to mobilize potential adherents and constituents, to garner bystander support and to demobilize antagonists.
Page 90 - I can, at any rate, show that the experiments made with it at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century fully confirm the high encomium bestowed by Dioscorides upon his indicum.
Page 101 - That operose, or complicated Manufactures are cheapest in rich Countries; — and raw Materials in poor ones: And therefore in Proportion as any Commodity approaches to one, or other of these Extremes, in that Proportion it will be found to be cheaper, or dearer in a rich, or a poor...
Page 80 - Indeed, having by his fault forfeited his own life by some act that deserves death, he to whom he has forfeited it may, when he has him in his power, delay to take it, and make use of him to his own service ; and he does him no injury by it.