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              1. 1. Hearing many at #has15 making point "modern abolitionists” use antislavery to accomplish different ends. As if old abolitionists didn’t.
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              2. Chris Brown’s point in *Moral Capital* was that many abolitionists came to the movement out of concern about other things.
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            3. Clapham Sect, no less than evangelical antislavery groups today, had range of social goals. They got involved b/c of other things.
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          4. And many US evangelical 19c abolitionists cut their teeth as temperance reformers first.
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        5. Brown further notes how British abolitionists sought to use the “moral capital” of abolition to advance other evangelical policy goals.
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      6. From this history, I draw two points: (a) the rhetorical “unmasking” of new abolitionists often turns on ahistorical sense of surprise.
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    7. But antislavery has always, not just today, been entangled with a variety of other motivations & goals.
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      8. And (b) I read Brown’s book as suggesting, partly, that waiting for a perfect, ideologically pure antislavery would mean waiting forever.
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        9. In a real sense the British abolition movement would not have occurred w/o motives that critics of “neo-abolitionism” see as ulterior.
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          10. So, while weighing costs of modern abolitionists’ complicity in other evils at #has15, we should weigh cost of Morgan’s Puritan dilemma.
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            11. The search for a perfectly pure abolitionism will usually lead, as it did for the Puritans Morgan wrote about, to a church of one.
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