Culture of English Antislavery, 1780-1860

This book provides a fresh overall account of organised antislavery by focusing on the active minority of abolutionists throughout the country. The analysis of their culture of reform demonstrates the way in which alliances of diverse religious groups roused public opinion and influenced political leaders. The resulting definition of the distinctive 'reform mentality' links antislavery to other efforts at moral and social improvement and highlights its contradictory relations to the social effects of industrialization and the growth of liberalism.

List of contents

1 APPROACH AND CONTEXTS 2 ARGUMENT AND IDEOLOGY 3 MAKING ABOLITIONISTS: Engaging with the world 4 BEING ABOLITIONISTS: Harmony and tension in the internal culture of antislavery 5 ABOLITIONISTS AND THE MIDDLE-CLASS REFORM COMPLEX 6 ANTISLAVERY, RADICALISM AND PATRIOTISM 7 THE ANGLO-AMERICAN CONNECTION 8 CONCLUSIONS

About the author

David Turley

Summary

Offers an account of the overall shape of organised antislavery from its beginnings in the 1780s, and provides fresh perspectives from which to assess contending interpretations of antislavery.

Additional text

`... impressively researched ...' - History`Turley has performed a real service to scholarship...' - Slavery and Abolition Vol 13 No.3 Dec 92

Product details

• Authors: David Turley, Turley David
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.04.2014
• EAN: 9781138009042
• ISBN: 978-1-138-00904-2
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, Social and cultural history, Slavery and abolition of slavery