Moral Capital by Christopher Leslie Brown

Author:Christopher Leslie Brown [Brown, Christopher Leslie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780807830345
Publisher: UofNCarolina Press
Published: 2006-09-15T05:00:00+00:00

Notes

1. Malachy Postlethwayt cited in David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, 2d ed., rev. (Oxford, 1988), 150; for further discussion on this point, see 151–154. Note also in this context the verdict rendered by Seymour Drescher: “The essential rationale for British-sponsored slavery, from first to last, was its apparent contribution to the collective wealth and power of the empire.” Drescher, Capitalism and Antislavery: British Mobilization in Comparative Perspective (London, 1987), 20.

2. William Russell, The History of America, from Its Discovery by Columbus to the Conclusion of the Late War; with an Appendix, Containing an Account of the Rise and Progress of the Present Unhappy Contest between Great Britain and Her Colonies, 2 vols. (London, 1778), II, 305; [John Huddleston] Wynne, A General History of the British Empire in America: Containing, an Historical, Political, and Commercial View of the English Settlements; Including All the Countries in North-America, and the West-Indies, Ceded by the Peace of Paris, 2 vols. (London, 1770), II, 540, 541, 545.

3. John Wesley, Thoughts upon Slavery, 3d ed. (London, 1774), 19, 23, 24–27; Minutes of the Meeting for Sufferings, XXXII (May 29, 1767, Aug. 31, Nov. 2, 1770, Jan. 11, 1771), 69, 408, 424, 444, Library of the Society of Friends, London. More than a dozen years earlier, in a seminal passage from his System of the Principles of the Laws of Scotland, Scottish jurist George Wallace had also recommended surrendering empire if empire required exploitation of slave labor. See David Brion Davis, “New Sidelights on Early Antislavery Radicalism,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Ser., XXVIII (1971), 589. On the public embrace of empire, see Kathleen Wilson, The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture, and Imperialism in England, 1715–1785 (Cambridge, 1995); Bob Harris, “ ‘American Idols’: Empire, War, and the Middling Ranks in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain,” Past and Present, no. 150 (February 1996), 111–114; and H. V. Bowen, “British Conceptions of Global Empire, 1756–1783,” Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, XXVI, no. 3 (1998), 1–5.

4. See generally Davis, The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, pts. 2 and 3; Drescher, Capitalism and Antislavery, 12–24; Robin Blackburn, The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776–1848 (London, 1988), 35–66; and Moira Ferguson, Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670–1834 (New York, 1992), chaps. 1–5.

5. Note also the comments by David Brion Davis on the challenges involved in abolishing slavery in those regions where slavery was of limited import: Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823 (Ithaca, N.Y., 1975), 86–92.

6. [Maurice Morgann], Plan for the Abolition of Slavery in the West Indies (London, 1772), 4, 7, 13, 15, 25.

7. Morgann perhaps is best known for his discerning Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff (London, 1777). Daniel A. Fineman identifies Morgann as the author of Plan for the Abolition of Slavery in the West Indies, but without supporting documentation. See Fineman, ed., Maurice Morgann: Shakespearean Criticism (Oxford, 1972), 6–7. In his private correspondence, Granville Sharp makes several references to the proposal by “the ingenious Mr.

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