Capitalism and Antislavery: British Mobilization in Comparative Perspective

✍ Scribed by Seymour Drescher (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 1986
Tongue: English
Leaves: 316
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
The Foundations of Slavery and Antislavery....Pages 1-24
Border Skirmish: Neither Wages nor the Whip....Pages 25-49
The Distinctiveness of British Abolitionist Mobilization....Pages 50-66
The Breakthrough 1787–92....Pages 67-88
The Impact of Popular Mobilization in Britain and the Caribbean....Pages 89-110
God’s Work: Antislavery and Religious Mobilization....Pages 111-134
Class Conflict, Hegemony and the Costs of Antislavery....Pages 135-161
Antislavery and Capitalism....Pages 162-166
Back Matter....Pages 167-300

✦ Subjects

History of Britain and Ireland; Political Science

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