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Polemical pain : slavery, cruelty, and the rise of humanitarianism
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Polemical pain : slavery, cruelty, and the rise of humanitarianism / Margaret Abruzzo.
ISBN
9780801898525 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0801898528 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2011.
Physical Description
330 pages ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 03, 2012
Series
New studies in American intellectual and cultural history.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Self-denial, Martyrdom, and the formation of Quaker humanitarianism
Humanity, human nature, and the problem of cruelty
Moral responsibility and removal, 1800-1832
Politicizing humaneness, 1832-1839
Suited for slavery, 1840-1852
The contradictions of benevolence, 1852-1861.
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