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In 1807, the British Parliament passed the “Act for the Abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire.” That this Act served British economic interests is an explanation now long dismissed, or else fundamentally recast. Christopher Leslie Brown has persuasively defined “moral capital” as the foundation of British abolitionism. The chapter emphasizes the role of women in antislavery, and the significance of the culture of sensibility to it.
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Barker-Benfield, G.J. (2023). Introduction. In: Ignatius Sancho and the British Abolitionist Movement, 1729-1786. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37420-3_1
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