Graduation Year
2016
Date of Submission
4-2016
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
History
Reader 1
Ian Hopper
Rights Information
© 2016 John G. Hyatt
Abstract
This thesis explores the growth of antislavery sentiment in the English-speaking world during the eighteenth century. I examine the institutional processes, transatlantic discourses, and ideological schema with which individuals and groups reformulated their identities as a means of extricating themselves from slavery's various social, economic, and ethical implications. I argue that abolitionism in England is best understood as the cumulative outcome to a series of identity reconstructions, and that a Histoire des Mentalités, as drawn from the Annales School, is an apt methodology for unmasking the structural underpinnings of an antislavery identity.
Recommended Citation
Hyatt, John Gilbert, "The Development of an English Antislavery Identity in the Eighteenth Century" (2016). CMC Senior Theses. 1367.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1367
