Thesis
British Unitarians and the crisis of American slavery, 1833-1865
- Abstract:
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The British Unitarians, a "sect everywhere spoken against" said Joseph Priestley, were a small, highly educated, financially respectable, politically aggressive and articulate denomination, which exerted an influence far beyond what their numbers ordinarily would command. They possessed an unbounded enthusiasm for reform and took part in almost every movement for social justice, one of which was particularly attractive to them the antislavery movement. Sadly, much of what they wrote and t...
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Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 1981
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Source identifiers:
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602354829
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Subjects:
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- td:602354829
- Deposit date:
- 2013-01-21
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- Copyright holder:
- Stange, Douglas Charles
- Copyright date:
- 1981
- Notes:
- The digital copy of this thesis has been made available thanks to the generosity of Dr Leonard Polonsky
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