Moral commerce :

Holcomb, Julie,

Moral commerce : Quakers and the Transatlantic boycott of the slave labor economy / Julie L. Holcomb. - London : Cornell University Press, 2016. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: a principle both moral and commercial -- Prize goods: the Quaker origins of the slave-labor boycott -- Blood-stained sugar: the eighteenth-century British abstention campaign -- Striking at the root of corruption: American Quakers and the boycott of slave labor in the early national period -- I am a man, your brother: Elizabeth Heyrick, abstention, and immediatism -- Woman's heart: free produce and domesticity -- An abstinence baptism: American abolitionism and free produce -- Yards of cotton cloth and pounds of sugar: the transatlantic free produce movement -- Bailing the Atlantic with a spoon: free produce in the 1840s and 1850s -- Conclusion: there is death in the pot!

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Quaker abolitionists--Great Britain.
Quaker abolitionists--United States.
Antislavery movements--History.--Great Britain
Antislavery movements--History.--United States
HISTORY--United States--19th Century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Slavery.
Antislavery movements.
Quaker abolitionists.


Great Britain.
United States.


Electronic books.
History.

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