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Moral commerce : Quakers and the Transatlantic boycott of the slave labor economy

Title
Moral commerce : Quakers and the Transatlantic boycott of the slave labor economy / Julie L. Holcomb.
Author
Holcomb, Julie L., 1963-
Publication
Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2016.

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Description
xiii, 252 pages; 24 cm
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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!
Call Number
Sc E 16-1607
ISBN
  • 9780801452086
  • 0801452082
LCCN
2016017620
OCLC
947954130
Author
Holcomb, Julie L., 1963- author.
Title
Moral commerce : Quakers and the Transatlantic boycott of the slave labor economy / Julie L. Holcomb.
Publisher
Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2016.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
Sc E 16-1607
JFE 17-11369
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