Thomas Bender is University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at New York University. John Ashworth is Lecturer in American Studies at the University of East Anglia. David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History at Yale University. Thomas L. Haskell is Professor of History at Rice University.

• PrefaceContributorsIntroduction / Thomas BenderPART 1: THE PROBLEM OF SLAVERY IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION,1770-1823 /DAVID BRION DAVIS1. What the Abolitionists Were Up Against2. The Quaker Ethic and the AntislaveryInternational3. The Preservation of English Liberty, IPART 2: THE AHR DEBATE4. Capitalism and the Origins of the HumanitarianSensibility, Part 1 / Thomas L. Haskell5. Capitalism and the Origins of the HumanitarianSensibility, Part 2 / Thomas L. Haskell6. Reflections on Abolitionism and Ideological Hegemony /David Brion Davis7. The Relationship between Capitalism andHumanitarianism / John Ashworth8. Convention and Hegemonic Interest in the Debateover Antislavery: A Reply to Davis and Ashworth /Thomas L. HaskellPART 3: THE DEBATE CONTINUED9. Capitalism, Class, and Antislavery / John Ashworth10. The Perils of Doing History by Ahistorical Abstraction:A Reply to Thomas L. Haskell's AHR Forum Reply /David Brion DavisIndex

Thomas Bender is University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at New York University. John Ashworth is Lecturer in American Studies at the University of East Anglia. David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History at Yale University. Thomas L. Haskell is Professor of History at Rice University.

• PrefaceContributorsIntroduction / Thomas BenderPART 1: THE PROBLEM OF SLAVERY IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION,1770-1823 /DAVID BRION DAVIS1. What the Abolitionists Were Up Against2. The Quaker Ethic and the AntislaveryInternational3. The Preservation of English Liberty, IPART 2: THE AHR DEBATE4. Capitalism and the Origins of the HumanitarianSensibility, Part 1 / Thomas L. Haskell5. Capitalism and the Origins of the HumanitarianSensibility, Part 2 / Thomas L. Haskell6. Reflections on Abolitionism and Ideological Hegemony /David Brion Davis7. The Relationship between Capitalism andHumanitarianism / John Ashworth8. Convention and Hegemonic Interest in the Debateover Antislavery: A Reply to Davis and Ashworth /Thomas L. HaskellPART 3: THE DEBATE CONTINUED9. Capitalism, Class, and Antislavery / John Ashworth10. The Perils of Doing History by Ahistorical Abstraction:A Reply to Thomas L. Haskell's AHR Forum Reply /David Brion DavisIndex

Thomas Bender is University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at New York University. John Ashworth is Lecturer in American Studies at the University of East Anglia. David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History at Yale University. Thomas L. Haskell is Professor of History at Rice University.

• PrefaceContributorsIntroduction / Thomas BenderPART 1: THE PROBLEM OF SLAVERY IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION,1770-1823 /DAVID BRION DAVIS1. What the Abolitionists Were Up Against2. The Quaker Ethic and the AntislaveryInternational3. The Preservation of English Liberty, IPART 2: THE AHR DEBATE4. Capitalism and the Origins of the HumanitarianSensibility, Part 1 / Thomas L. Haskell5. Capitalism and the Origins of the HumanitarianSensibility, Part 2 / Thomas L. Haskell6. Reflections on Abolitionism and Ideological Hegemony /David Brion Davis7. The Relationship between Capitalism andHumanitarianism / John Ashworth8. Convention and Hegemonic Interest in the Debateover Antislavery: A Reply to Davis and Ashworth /Thomas L. HaskellPART 3: THE DEBATE CONTINUED9. Capitalism, Class, and Antislavery / John Ashworth10. The Perils of Doing History by Ahistorical Abstraction:A Reply to Thomas L. Haskell's AHR Forum Reply /David Brion DavisIndex