The Culture of English Antislavery, 1780-1860

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Routledge, 1991 - 284 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.

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About the author (1991)

Dr. David Turley teaches in the School of History and is Director of the Centre for American
Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury. His previous books include "The Culture of English Anti-Slavery, 1780-1860" (1991) and "American Religion" (1998).

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