The Culture of English Antislavery, 1780-1860

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Routledge, 2004 M01 14 - 296 pages
This book provides a fresh overall account of organised antislavery by focusing on the active minority of abolutionists throughout the country. The analysis of their culture of reform demonstrates the way in which alliances of diverse religious groups roused public opinion and influenced political leaders. The resulting definition of the distinctive `reform mentality' links antislavery to other efforts at moral and social improvement and highlights its contradictory relations to the social effects of industrialization and the growth of liberalism.
 

Contents

1 APPROACH AND CONTEXTS
1
2 ARGUMENT AND IDEOLOGY
16
3 MAKING ABOLITIONISTS
45
4 BEING ABOLITIONISTS
79
5 ABOLITIONISTS AND THE MIDDLECLASS REFORM COMPLEX
104
6 ANTISLAVERY
150
7 THE ANGLOAMERICAN CONNECTION
190
8 CONCLUSIONS
220
NOTES
229
BIBLIOGRAPHY
265
INDEX
286
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David Turley

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