Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism
Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism
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道德资本：英国废奴主义的基础
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2006
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C. L. Brown
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C. L. Brown
克里斯托弗·莱斯利·布朗（Christopher Leslie Brown）重新审视了18世纪末英国反奴隶制运动的起源，他挑战了将废奴主义的根源定位于经济决定论或资产阶级人道主义的主流学术观点。相反，布朗将从情感到行动的转变与当时英国对帝国和国家的看法的变化联系起来，特别是美国革命引发的焦虑和混乱。布朗认为，关于北美殖民地政治权利的辩论将奴隶制推到了前台，使反奴隶制组织在英国获得了前所未有的道德合法性。第一个解放计划依赖于在海外权威削弱的时代加强帝国国家作用的努力。布朗连接不同的股英国大西洋世界，并带来了重点转移的发展，在英国的身份，对非洲的态度，定义帝国使命，兴起的圣公会福音派，和贵格会激进主义。他表明，废奴运动的力量来自于对失败和美国独立后的道德价值的深刻渴望。因此，废奴主义被证明是废奴主义者自己的事业，也是被奴役的非洲人的事业。
Revisiting the origins of the British antislavery movement of the late eighteenth century, Christopher Leslie Brown challenges prevailing scholarly arguments that locate the roots of abolitionism in economic determinism or bourgeois humanitarianism. Brown instead connects the shift from sentiment to action to changing views of empire and nation in Britain at the time, particularly the anxieties and dislocations spurred by the American Revolution. The debate over the political rights of the North American colonies pushed slavery to the fore, Brown argues, giving antislavery organizing the moral legitimacy in Britain it had never had before. The first emancipation schemes were dependent on efforts to strengthen the role of the imperial state in an era of weakening overseas authority. Brown connects disparate strands of the British Atlantic world and brings into focus shifting developments in British identity, attitudes toward Africa, definitions of imperial mission, the rise of Anglican evangelicalism, and Quaker activism. He shows that the abolitionist movement derived its power from a profound yearning for moral worth in the aftermath of defeat and American independence. Thus abolitionism proved to be a cause for the abolitionists themselves as much as for enslaved Africans.