Moral Commerce: Quakers and the Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy

by Julie L. Holcomb

How can the simple choice of a men's suit be a moral statement and a political act? When the suit is made of free-labor wool rather than slave-grown cotton. In Moral Commerce, Julie L. Holcomb traces the genealogy of the boycott of slave labor from its seventeenth-century Quaker origins through its late nineteenth-century decline. In their failures and in their successes, in their resilience and their persistence, antislavery consumers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801452082
• ISBN13: 9780801452086
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher