Capitalism and Antislavery: British Mobilization in Comparative Perspective

by Drescher and Seymour Drescher

Book Overview

The age of British abolitionism came into consolidated strength in 1787-88 with the first mass campaign against the slave trade and ended just half a century later in 1838 with a mass petition movement against Negro Apprenticeship. Drescher focuses on this critical fifty-year period, when the people of the Empire effectively pressured and eventually altered national policy. Presenting a major reassessment of the roots, nature, and significance of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195205340
• ISBN13: 9780195205343
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.8"