UID:
almahu_9948327008102882
Format:
1 online resource (339 pages)
ISBN:
9781421401270 (e-book)
Series Statement:
New studies in American intellectual and cultural history
Note:
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.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Abruzzo, Margaret Nicola. Polemical pain : slavery, cruelty, and the rise of humanitarianism. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011 ISBN 9780801898525
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
