The plain style in early anti-slavery discourse: Reassessing the rhetorical beginnings of Quaker and Puritan advocacy

Southard, Bjørn F. Stillion

doi:10.1080/00335630.2016.1186818

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“…49 Sewall's pamphlet resembled the Quaker's petition in the plainness of its style, which contrasted with the Catholic and Anglican opulent rhetoric. 50 These were the early steps of a strand of abolitionism that would take center stage on a global scale.…”

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Global Abolitionist Movements

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Abolitionism succeeded thanks to the struggles of many movements, some genuinely global, others national or local but interconnected at a global level. This article takes a pluralist approach to global abolitionism. Since the late 17th century, the membership, objectives, and strategies of different abolitionist movements have been varied, but they shared the same objective: to impose their understanding of slavery as an aberration that ought to be de-legalized and eventually prohibited worldwide. This article periodizes global abolitionism in three main stages characterized, successively, by the primacy of egalitarianism, imperialism, and internationalism. By the mid-20th century, pro-slavery ideologies were obsolete in Euro-America and had disappeared from official policy globally. They survived in circumscribed contexts in which anti-slavery activists are struggling against the lingering vitality of pro-slavery ideas in the 21st century.

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Section: Abolitionism In North Americamentioning

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Global Abolitionist Movements

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The plain style in early anti-slavery discourse: Reassessing the rhetorical beginnings of Quaker and Puritan advocacy

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Global Abolitionist Movements

Global Abolitionist Movements

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