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Julie L. Holcomb - Moral Commerce: Quakers and the Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy - 9780801452086 - V9780801452086
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Moral Commerce: Quakers and the Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy

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Description for Moral Commerce: Quakers and the Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6, 6 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; HBTS; HRCC97; KCF; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
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 late nineteenth-century decline. In their failures and in their successes, in their resilience and their persistence, antislavery consumers help us understand the possibilities and the limitations of moral commerce.Quaker antislavery rhetoric began with protests against the slave trade before expanding to include boycotts of the use and products of ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801452086
SKU
V9780801452086
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Julie L. Holcomb
Julie L. Holcomb is Assistant Professor of Museum Studies at Baylor University. She is the editor of Southern Sons, Northern Soldiers: The Civil War Letters of the Remley Brothers, 22nd Iowa Infantry. Julie L. Holcomb is Assistant Professor of Museum Studies at Baylor University. She is the editor of Southern Sons, Northern Soldiers: The Civil War Letters of the Remley ... Read more

Reviews for Moral Commerce: Quakers and the Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy
I am impressed with the chronological and geographic reach of Moral Commerce. The field has needed a work that connects the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries and which returns us to a transatlantic antislavery focus. Julie L. Holcomb connects the antislavery literature with research on historical consumerism in creative ways and uses a wide array of primary and secondary materials. ... Read more

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