Fetishism and the Moral Marketplace: How Abolitionist Sugar Boycotts in the 1790s Defined British Consumers and the West Indian "Other"

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Fetishism and the Moral Marketplace: How Abolitionist Sugar Boycotts in the 1790s Defined British Consumers and the West Indian "Other"

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In the early 1790s more than 300,000 Britons boycotted West Indian sugar in one of the most impressive displays of public mobilisation against the slave trade. Many of those who abstained were inspired by William Fox’s 1791 pamphlet An Address to the People of Great Britain on the Utility of Refraining from the Use of West India Sugar and Rum. The abstention movement gained momentum amidst the failures of the petition campaign to achieve a legislative end to the slave-trade, and placed the re...

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Masters

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2015

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Carmichael, Laurel

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https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Fetishism_and_the_Moral_Marketplace_How_Abolitionist_Sugar_B...

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British history / Sugar / Boycott / Abolition / Consumer / Consumer activism / Slavery / Slave trade / Britain / West Indies / School: School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations / British History / Degree Discipline: History / Degree Level: Masters / Degree Name: Master of Arts

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