Quakers and the Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy
by
Julie L. Holcomb
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
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...