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Moral commerce : Quakers and the Transatlantic boycott of the slave labor economy / Julie L. Holcomb.

Author/creator Holcomb, Julie L., 1963-
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoIthaca : Cornell University Press, 2016.
Description1 online resource (xiii, 252 pages)
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
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Portion of title Quakers and the Transatlantic boycott of the slave labor economy
Contents Introduction: a principle both moral and commercial -- Prize goods: the Quaker origins of the slave-labor boycott -- Blood-stained sugar: the eighteenth-century British abstention campaign -- Striking at the root of corruption: American Quakers and the boycott in the early national period -- I am a man, your brother: Elizabeth Heyrick, abstention, and immediatism -- Woman's heart: free produce and domesticity -- An abstinence baptism: American abolitionism and free produce -- Yards of cotton cloth and pounds of sugar: the transatlantic free produce movement -- Bailing the Atlantic with a spoon: free produce in the 1840s and 1850s -- Conclusion: there is death in the pot!
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
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Issued in other formPrint version: Moral commerce Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016. 9780801452086
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2021702304
ISBN9781501706622 ebook
ISBN(cloth : alk. paper)

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