19세기 전반 영국과 미국의 대서양 노예무역 억제정책과 도덕자본(Moral Capital)의 국제정치

This research scrutinizes policies of the suppression of the transatlantic slave trade in Britain and the United States from the late eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. Since the early 2000s, several studies which focus on the rise of the abolitionist movement in the context of the American Revolution have received attention. These explanations give partial answers to the questions about the timing of the antislavery movement and break fresh ground in the debate of abolitionists’ motivation beyond the dichotomy between morality and material interests; during the revolutionary period, attacks on slavery could serve a range of purposes in dealing with imperial policies. However, to get a more comprehensive interpretation, it is worth expanding the timing of the formation of moral capital and its scope of application. Much evidence suggests that the antislavery discourse became transformed into moral capital in the field of international politics beyond a personal and group level, even after the abolition of the slave trade in 1807. This research will analyze the formative process of moral capital through comparing the Anglo-American policies of the suppression of the slave trade in the post-revolutionary era.