Author: Anthony BenezetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anti-slavery literature
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
A Caution to Great Britain and Her Colonies
Author: Anthony BenezetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anti-slavery literature
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Sensibility and the American Revolution
Author: Sarah KnottPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807838748
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
In the wake of American independence, it was clear that the new United States required novel political forms. Less obvious but no less revolutionary was the idea that the American people needed a new understanding of the self. Sensibility was a cultural movement that celebrated the human capacity for sympathy and sensitivity to the world. For individuals, it offered a means of self-transformation. For a nation lacking a monarch, state religion, or standing army, sensibility provided a means of cohesion. National independence and social interdependence facilitated one another. What Sarah Knott calls "the sentimental project" helped a new kind of citizen create a new kind of government. Knott paints sensibility as a political project whose fortunes rose and fell with the broader tides of the Revolutionary Atlantic world. Moving beyond traditional accounts of social unrest, republican and liberal ideology, and the rise of the autonomous individual, she offers an original interpretation of the American Revolution as a transformation of self and society.
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present Time: Bedinger to Brownell
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
A dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 375251017X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.
Principles and Agents
Author: David RichardsonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300262906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
A new history of the abolition of the British slave trade “Easily the most scholarly, clear and persuasive analysis yet published of the rise to dominance of the British in the Atlantic slave trade—as well as the implementation of abolition when that dominance was its peak.”—David Eltis, co-author of Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Parliament’s decision in 1807 to outlaw British slaving was a key moment in modern world history. In this magisterial work, historian David Richardson challenges claims that this event was largely due to the actions of particular individuals and emphasizes instead that abolition of the British slave trade relied on the power of ordinary people to change the world. British slaving and opposition to it grew in parallel through the 1760s and then increasingly came into conflict both in the public imagination and in political discourse. Looking at the ideological tensions between Britons’ sense of themselves as free people and their willingness to enslave Africans abroad, Richardson shows that from the 1770s those simmering tensions became politicized even as British slaving activities reached unprecedented levels, mobilizing public opinion to coerce Parliament to confront and begin to resolve the issue between 1788 and 1807.
John Woolman and the Government of Christ
Author: Jon R. KershnerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190868090
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
In 1758, a Quaker tailor and sometime shopkeeper and school teacher stood up in a Quaker meeting and declared that the time had come for Friends to reject the practice of slavery. That man was John Woolman, and that moment was a significant step, among many, toward the abolition of slavery in the United States. Woolman's antislavery position was only one essential piece of his comprehensive theological vision for colonial American society. Drawing on Woolman's entire body of writing, Jon R. Kershner reveals that the theological and spiritual underpinnings of Woolman's alternative vision for the British Atlantic world were nothing less than a direct, spiritual christocracy on earth, what Woolman referred to as "the Government of Christ." Kershner argues that Woolman's theology is best understood as apocalyptic-centered on a supernatural revelation of Christ's immediate presence governing all aspects of human affairs, and envisaging the impending victory of God's reign over apostasy. John Woolman and the Government of Christ explores the theological reasoning behind Woolman's critique of the burgeoning trans-Atlantic economy, slavery, and British imperial conflicts, and fundamentally reinterprets 18th-century Quakerism by demonstrating the continuing influence of early Quaker apocalypticism.
A Political Biography of Thomas Paine
Author: W A SpeckPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317323289
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Speck's biography examines Paine's work afresh, in light of new thinking about the role of religion in the formation of his political ideology, and also places Paine within the recently-developed context of 'Atlantic History'.
In the Cause of Humanity
Author: Fabian KlosePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316516202
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
A major new history of the emergence of the theory and practice of humanitarian intervention during the nineteenth century.
Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries
Author: Sean D. MoorePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192573403
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce—the book trade and the slave trade. Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries bridges the study of these trades by demonstrating how Americans' profits from slavery were reinvested in imported British books and providing evidence that the colonial book market was shaped, in part, by the demand of slave owners for metropolitan cultural capital. Drawing on recent scholarship that shows how participation in London cultural life was very expensive in the eighteenth century, as well as evidence that enslavers were therefore some of the few early Americans who could afford to import British cultural products, the volume merges the fields of the history of the book, Atlantic studies, and the study of race, arguing that the empire-wide circulation of British books was underwritten by the labour of the African diaspora. The volume is the first in early American and eighteenth-century British studies to fuse our growing understanding of the material culture of the transatlantic text with our awareness of slavery as an economic and philanthropic basis for the production and consumption of knowledge. In studying the American dissemination of works of British literature and political thought, it claims that Americans were seeking out the forms of citizenship, constitutional traditions, and rights that were the signature of that British identity. Even though they were purchasing the sovereignty of Anglo-Americans at the expense of African-Americans through these books, however, some colonials were also making the case for the abolition of slavery.
