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Christopher Leslie Brown
Cloth ISBN 0-8078-3034-8 $55.00
Paper ISBN 0-8078-5698-3 $22.50
Copyright 2006 by The University of North Carolina Press
Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (2007)
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“Moral Capital is a compelling story, logically structured and elegantly written. Brown’s fine-grained analysis of the abolitionists clarifies how antislavery visions were first limited and finally unleashed by their existential situations within the British Empire. The result is a densely woven tapestry of the warp of antislavery and the woof of imperial and transatlantic politics, offering us a thicker description of pre-Parliamentary abolitionism in Britain than we have ever enjoyed. A major advance in the history of abolitionism.”
--Seymour Drescher
“Brown has constructed the most original interpretation in decades of the origins of the campaigns against the slave trade and slavery in the Atlantic world. His book will be widely read and influential.”
--David Eltis
“This is a learned, markedly lucid, and highly detailed work. Moral Capital disentangles the many different sources of abolitionism in Britain, and stresses the role of contingency, while demonstrating the importance both of the American Revolution and the burgeoning debate on the morality and purpose of empire.”
--Linda Colley
“A fascinating study of a crucial episode in Atlantic history. Brown adds a vital new dimension to the story of abolitionism.”
--Robin Blackburn
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