Author's Keywords: Slavery, abolition, humanitarianism, moral obligation, sovereignty, identity, Britain, colonialism.	Convention Need a solution for abstract management? All Academic can help! Contact us today to find out how our system can help your annual meeting. Submission - Custom fields, multiple submission types, tracks, audio visual, multiple upload formats, automatic conversion to pdf. Review - Peer Review, Bulk reviewer assignment, bulk emails, ranking, z-score statistics, and multiple worksheets! Reports - Many standard and custom reports generated while you wait. Print programs with participant indexes, event grids, and more! Scheduling - Flexible and convenient grid scheduling within rooms and buildings. Conflict checking and advanced filtering. Communication - Bulk email tools to help your administrators send reminders and responses. Use form letters, a message center, and much more! Management - Search tools, duplicate people management, editing tools, submission transfers, many tools to manage a variety of conference management headaches! Click here for more information.
Association: Name: ISA's 50th ANNUAL CONVENTION "EXPLORING THE PAST, ANTICIPATING THE FUTURE" URL: http://www.isanet.org
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Paras, Andrea. "For Love of Liberty or Virtue: Identity and Moral Obligation in British Abolitionism" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 50th ANNUAL CONVENTION "EXPLORING THE PAST, ANTICIPATING THE FUTURE", New York Marriott Marquis, NEW YORK CITY, NY, USA, Feb 15, 2009 <Not Available>. 2009-11-04 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p312679_index.html>

Paras, A. , 2009-02-15 "For Love of Liberty or Virtue: Identity and Moral Obligation in British Abolitionism" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 50th ANNUAL CONVENTION "EXPLORING THE PAST, ANTICIPATING THE FUTURE", New York Marriott Marquis, NEW YORK CITY, NY, USA Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2009-11-04 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p312679_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: This paper uses the example of 19th century British abolitionism to examine the relationship between identity and moral obligation. The abolitionists regarded themselves as humanitarians, and understood their actions in terms of Christian virtue and as being consistent with British notions of liberty. Thus, humanitarianism was understood both as a quality of national character and as a religious requirement. Using pamphlets published between the early 1780s and 1807, this paper seeks to understand how humanitarianism was constructed by these early activists. Examining this case as one episode in the history of humanitarianism may help to provide insight into how identity feeds notions of humanitarianism, and also how and where the limits of humanitarianism are drawn. Constructions of moral obligation not only provide a framework for transcendental relations between Self and Other, but they also set the limits of such interactions. This may also help us to better understand the role of identity in contemporary ideas about humanitarianism.

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