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From Empire to Humanity - The American Revolution and the Origins of Humanitarianism (Hardcover)
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From Empire to Humanity - The American Revolution and the Origins of Humanitarianism (Hardcover)
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From Empire to Humanity tells the story of a generation of American
and British activists who transformed humanitarianism as they
adjusted to becoming foreigners to each other in the wake of the
American Revolution. In the decades before the Revolution,
Americans and Britons shared an imperial approach to charitable
activity. They worked together in benevolent ventures designed to
strengthen the British empire, and ordinary men and women donated
to help faraway members of the British community. Raised and
educated in this world of connections, future activists from the
British Isles, North America, and the West Indies developed
expansive outlooks and transatlantic ties. For budding
doctors-including Philadelphia's Benjamin Rush, Caribbean-born
Londoner John Coakley Lettsom, and John Crawford, whose life took
him from Ireland to India, Barbados, South America, and, finally,
Baltimore-this was especially true. American independence put an
end to their common imperial humanitarianism, but not their
friendships, their far-reaching visions, or their belief in
philanthropy as a tool of statecraft. In the postwar years, with
doctor-activists at the forefront, Americans and Britons
collaborated in the anti-drowning cause and other medical
philanthropy, antislavery movements, prison reform, and more. No
longer members of the same polity, the erstwhile compatriots
adopted a universal approach to their beneficence as they
reimagined their bonds with people who were now foreigners.
Universal benevolence could also be a source of tension. With the
new wars at the end of the century, activists' optimistic
cosmopolitanism waned, even as their practices endured. Making the
care of suffering strangers routine, they laid the groundwork for
later generations' global undertakings.
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