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List of contents
Preface
Contributors
Introduction / Thomas Bender
PART 1: THE PROBLEM OF SLAVERY IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION,
1770-1823 /DAVID BRION DAVIS
1. What the Abolitionists Were Up Against
2. The Quaker Ethic and the Antislavery
International
3. The Preservation of English Liberty, I
PART 2: THE AHR DEBATE
4. Capitalism and the Origins of the Humanitarian
Sensibility, Part 1 / Thomas L. Haskell
5. Capitalism and the Origins of the Humanitarian
Sensibility, Part 2 / Thomas L. Haskell
6. Reflections on Abolitionism and Ideological Hegemony /
David Brion Davis
7. The Relationship between Capitalism and
Humanitarianism / John Ashworth
8. Convention and Hegemonic Interest in the Debate
over Antislavery: A Reply to Davis and Ashworth /
Thomas L. Haskell
PART 3: THE DEBATE CONTINUED
9. Capitalism, Class, and Antislavery / John Ashworth
10. The Perils of Doing History by Ahistorical Abstraction:
A Reply to Thomas L. Haskell's AHR Forum Reply /
David Brion Davis
Index
About the author
Thomas Bender is University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at New York University. John Ashworth is Lecturer in American Studies at the University of East Anglia. David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History at Yale University. Thomas L. Haskell is Professor of History at Rice University.
Summary
This volume brings together one of the most provocative debates among historians in recent years. The centre of controversy is the emergence of the anti-slavery movement in the United States and Britain and the relation of capitalism to the development.
