The role of character in public moral argument: Henry ward Beecher and the Brooklyn scandal

Carlson, Ann

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“…Most Englanders did not debate the question of whether the world needed their empire-they were simply quibbling about the nature, scope, and limits of their interventionist practices. These imperial debates created a vast reservoir of what Carlson (1991) calls public moral arguments, those issues of character that may be just as important as the formalistic logics or pieces of evidence that are persuasive elements of legal cases.…”

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Critical Memories of Crafted Virtues

Hasian

2008

Journal of Communication Inquiry

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This article provides a critical legal analysis of the rhetoric surrounding the “modern slavery” problems associated with the Cadbury Brothers firm during the early 20th century. The Cadbury firm sued The Standard newspaper for libel, alleging that the firm's directors' reputations had been damaged. The author argues that critical analysis of this libel trial shows how the crafting of Victorian or Edwardian virtues often involved the defense of imperial reputations, and in this case British liberals and conservatives debated each other as they critiqued Portuguese colonial practices. The author concludes that the work of Henry Nevinson and other investigators continues to influence modern interrogations of contemporary cocoa business practices.

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