Moral Commerce : : Quakers and the Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy / / Julie L. Holcomb.
How can the simple choice of a men’s suit be a moral statement and a political act? When the suit is made of free-labor wool rather than slave-grown cotton. In Moral Commerce, Julie L. Holcomb traces the genealogy of the boycott of slave labor from its seventeenth-century Quaker origins through its...
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| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction A Principle Both Moral and Commercial
- 1. Prize Goods: The Quaker Origins of the Slave-Labor Boycott
- 2. Blood- Stained Sugar: The Eighteenth- Century British Abstention Campaign
- 3. Striking at the Root of Corruption: American Quakers and the Boycott in the Early National Period
- 4. I Am a Man, Your Brother: Elizabeth Heyrick, Abstention, and Immediatism
- 5. Woman’s Heart: Free Produce and Domesticity
- 6. An Abstinence Baptism: American Abolitionism and Free Produce
- 7. Yards of Cotton Cloth and Pounds of Sugar: The Transatlantic Free- Produce Movement
- 8. Bailing the Atlantic with a Spoon: Free Produce in the 1840s and 1850s
- Conclusion: There Is Death in the Pot!
- Notes
- Index