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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Holcomb V. United States of America
Author: Moral Commerce
Author: Julie L. HolcombPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501706624
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
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 help us understand the possibilities and the limitations of moral commerce. Quaker antislavery rhetoric began with protests against the slave trade before expanding to include boycotts of the use and products of slave labor. For more than one hundred years, British and American abolitionists highlighted consumers’ complicity in sustaining slavery. The boycott of slave labor was the first consumer movement to transcend the boundaries of nation, gender, and race in an effort by reformers to change the conditions of production. The movement attracted a broad cross-section of abolitionists: conservative and radical, Quaker and non-Quaker, male and female, white and black. The men and women who boycotted slave labor created diverse, biracial networks that worked to reorganize the transatlantic economy on an ethical basis. Even when they acted locally, supporters embraced a global vision, mobilizing the boycott as a powerful force that could transform the marketplace. For supporters of the boycott, the abolition of slavery was a step toward a broader goal of a just and humane economy. The boycott failed to overcome the power structures that kept slave labor in place; nonetheless, the movement’s historic successes and failures have important implications for modern consumers.
Holcomb V. United States of America
Author: Ruth V. United States of America
Author: Qualls V. United States of America
Author: Kramer V. United States of America
Author: The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti
Author: Felix FrankfurterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anarchism
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
On April 15, 1920, Parmenter, a paymaster, and Berardelli, his guard, were fired upon and killed. Sacco and Vanzetti were charged on May 5, 1920, with the crime of the murders, were indicted on September 14, 1920, and put to trial May 31, 1921, at Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. compare pages [3]-8.
De Paola V. United States of America
Author: United States Supreme Court Reports
Author: United States. Supreme CourtPublisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1180
Book Description
First series, books 1-43, includes "Notes on U.S. reports" by Walter Malins Rose.
Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description