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By Judith Jennings

This examine offers new information regarding the 4 Quaker businessmen who helped chanced on the London Abolition Committee in 1787 and remained lively within the overdue anti-slave alternate circulate all through their lifetimes. Drawing on formerly unused basic resources, the examine strains the shut own, enterprise, social and spiritual ties binding the lads jointly and shaping their abolition actions and arguments. via heavily reading the lives of Joseph Woods, James Philips, George Harrison and Samuel Hoare, the research provides a brand new view of the criteria shaping the arguments and methods of abolitionism in Britain.

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