Julie Holcomb: 2 books

Book cover of Currents in Transatlantic History

Currents in Transatlantic History

Encounters, Commodities, Identities

by Marcus Rediker, Benjamin Mark Allen, Emmanuel Mbah
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017

Transatlantic historians are dedicated to analyzing the dynamic process of encounter, interchange, and creolization that was initiated when peoples on different sides of the Atlantic Basin first made contact and continues until the twenty-first century. The forty-ninth annual Walter Prescott...
Book cover of Moral Commerce

Moral Commerce

Quakers and the Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy

by Julie L. Holcomb
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016

How can the simple choice of a men’s suit be a moral statement and a political act? When the suit is made of free-labor wool rather than slave-grown cotton. In Moral Commerce, Julie L. Holcomb traces the genealogy of the boycott of slave labor from its seventeenth-century Quaker origins through...
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