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Capitalism and Antislavery - British Mobilization in Comparative Perspective (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Capitalism and Antislavery - British Mobilization in Comparative Perspective (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The age of British abolitionism came into consolidated strength in
1787-88 with the first mass campaign against the slave trade and
ended just half a century later in 1838 with a mass petition
movement against Negro Apprenticeship. Drescher focuses on this
critical fifty-year period, when the people of the Empire
effectively pressured and eventually altered national policy.
Presenting a major reassessment of the roots, nature, and
significance of Britain's successful struggle against slavery, he
illuminates a novel turn in the history of antislavery, when for
the first time, the most effective agents in the abolition process
were non-slave masses, including working men and women. This not
only set Britain off from ancient Rome, medieval western Europe,
and early modern Russia, but, in scale and duration, it
distinguished Britain from its 19th-century continental European
counterparts as well. Viewing British abolitionism against the
backdrop of larger national and international events, this
provocative study challenges readers to look anew at the politics
of slavery and social change in a prominent era of British history.
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