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Polemical pain : slavery, cruelty, and the rise of humanitarianism /

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Main Author: Abruzzo, Margaret Nicola (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Series:New studies in American intellectual and cultural history.
Subjects:
Slavery > Moral and ethical aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Quaker abolitionists > History > 19th century.
Abolitionists > History > 19th century.
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century.
Slavery > United States > Psychological aspects.
Slavery > United States > History > 19th century.
United States > Moral conditions > History > 19th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • Self-denial, Martyrdom, and the formation of Quaker humanitarianism
  • Humanity, human nature, and the problem of cruelty
  • Moral responsibility and removal, 1800-1832
  • Politicizing humaneness, 1832-1839
  • Suited for slavery, 1840-1852
  • The contradictions of benevolence, 1852-1861.

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