Transnational advocacy in the eighteenth century

Transatlantic Activism and the Anti-Slavery Movement

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4263162
AutoresHuw T David (University of Hertfordshire, autor de correspondencia)
Año2007
Volumen7
Número3
Páginas367-382
Fecha de publicación2007-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGlobal Networks (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1470-2266 • E-ISSN: 1471-0374
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1471-0374.2007.00174.x
OpenAlexW2131054416
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas12

In this article, I assess how a transnational campaign against the slave trade developed in the eighteenth century, focusing on the seminal role of Quakers. Building on Keck and Sikkink's study of the international campaign against slavery in America in the mid-nineteenth century, I show how one can identify transnational advocacy on this issue more than half a century earlier. I examine the features of Quakerism - specifically the close links between American and English Quakers -and the historical circumstances that gave rise to the campaign. In particular, I assess the role of transatlantic correspondence and travel among individual Quakers and the close organizational links between the society's branches on either side of the Atlantic. I analyse the development of anti-slave trade activism according to Khagram, Riker and Sikkink's model of network development and find that this model is broadly applicable. I note, however, the change within the campaign from truly transnational (transatlantic) to predominantly domestic (British) as it changed from a coalition to a broader social movement, and as the campaign began to interact with the state, thus suggesting that the development of transnational networks is neither linear nor inevitable

Aesthetics · Art · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social activism · Social movement · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Law · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment