Not Made by Slaves Bronwen Everill
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epub | 12.79 MB | English | Isbn: 0674240987 | Author: Bronwen Everill | Year: 2020
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How abolitionist businesses marshaled intense moral outrage over slavery to shape a new ethics of international commerce.
"East India Sugar Not Made By Slaves." With these words on a sugar bowl, consumers of the early nineteenth century declared their power to change the global economy. Bronwen Everill examines how abolitionists from Europe to the United States to West Africa used new ideas of supply and demand, consumer credit, and branding to shape an argument for ethical capitalism.
Everill focuses on the everyday economy of the Atlantic world. Antislavery affected business operations, as companies in West Africa, including the British firm Macaulay & Babington and the American partnership of Brown & Ives, developed new tactics in order to make "legitimate" commerce pay. Everill explores how the dilemmas of conducting ethical commerce reshaped the larger moral discourse surrounding production and consumption, influencing how slavery and freedom came to be defined...
Category:1837-1901 History of UK, History of West Africa, Abolition History of the U.S.
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