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

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

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Description
1 online resource (xiii, 252 pages)
Uniform Title
Moral commerce (Online)
Alternative Title
  • Moral commerce (Online)
  • Quakers and the Transatlantic boycott of the slave labor economy
Subject
  • Antislavery movements > United States > History
  • Antislavery movements > Great Britain > History
  • Quaker abolitionists > United States
  • Quaker abolitionists > Great Britain
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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 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!
LCCN
2021702304
OCLC
ssj0001715972
Author
Holcomb, Julie L., 1963-
Title
Moral commerce [electronic resource] : Quakers and the Transatlantic boycott of the slave labor economy / Julie L. Holcomb.
Imprint
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Note
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
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Print version: Moral commerce Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016. 9780801452086 (DLC) 2016017620
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