| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Book Review

Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism. By Christopher Leslie Brown. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xvi, 480 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 08078-3034-8. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-8078-5698-3.)

Moral Capital is a provocative rereading of the origins of late eighteenth-century British antislavery. Beautifully written and elegantly paced, Christopher Leslie Brown's study revisits an enduring question: Why in the 1780s did so many British subjects, seemingly overnight, turn against the slave trade and initiate what would become a movement to end slavery throughout the British Empire? Whether or not Brown provides a clear answer to this puzzle, he focuses, in new and compelling ways, on how the American Revolution featured in the rise of abolitionist thought.

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