Antislavery in the Dissenting Atlantic

Bridget Bennett is professor of American literature and culture at the University of Leeds and author of Transatlantic Spiritualism and Nineteenth-Century American Literature.

"Antislavery in the Dissenting Atlantic is a landmark approach to grassroots transatlantic antislavery activism among British religious communities that mobilized political and practical principles of 'dissent' to transformative effect in the decades between the American Revolution and the Civil War. It provides an important corrective to the underacknowledged influence of Moravians on British antislavery and demonstrates how measures undertaken at the local and even the domestic level, particularly by women, contributed economically and in other significant ways to the work of antislavery." - Fionnghuala Sweeney, author of Frederick Douglass and the Atlantic World"In this deeply investigated, well-written book, Bridget Bennett expands our understanding of transatlantic abolitionism by examining the groups that nurtured the movement's activists. Bennett focuses on the people, ideas, objects, and printed materials that united these individuals across the Atlantic world. She supplies surprising and considerable insights, highlighting, for example, the relationships between Quakers, Moravians, and Black abolitionists." - Julie L. Holcomb, author of Moral Commerce: Quakers and the Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy"Bennett greatly enriches our appreciation of dissenting factions, abolitionist campaigning, and the interaction between written texts, artifacts, and everyday conversations and debates. Based on meticulous research, Antislavery in the Dissenting Atlantic presents a richly nuanced account of some of the lesser-known elements of the common antislavery story, setting them in a transatlantic context that poses critical questions about the 'connectedness' of reform efforts during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries." - J. R. Oldfield, author of Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Age of Revolution