Not Made by Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition 0674240987, 9780674240988

How abolitionist businesses marshaled intense moral outrage over slavery to shape a new ethics of international commerce

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Not Made by Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition
0674240987, 9780674240988

Wives not Slaves begins with the story of John and Eunice Davis, a colonial American couple who, in 1762, advertised the

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Wives not Slaves begins with the story of John and Eunice Davis, a colonial American couple who, in 1762, advertised the

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In the nineteenth century, global systems of capitalism and empire knit the North Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds into

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In the nineteenth century, global systems of capitalism and empire knit the North Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds into

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While the British were able to accomplish abolition in the trans-Atlantic world by the end of the nineteenth century, th

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For some of us, the family is a source of love and support. But for many others, the family is a place of private horror

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The everyday lives of enslaved people were filled with the backbreaking tasks that their enslavers forced them to comple

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In the nineteenth century, global systems of capitalism and empire knit the North Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds into

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Justene Hill Edwards illuminates the inner workings of the slaves’ economy and the strategies that enslaved people used

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