1. On non-Western slavery, see William Gervase Clarence-Smith, Islam and the Abolition of Slavery (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).
2. See Martha Finnemore, The Purpose of Intervention: Changing Beliefs about the Use of Force (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003), 68–69.
3. See Christopher Leslie Brown, Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006), ch. 1.
4. See David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 330–31.
5. Theodore Dwight Weld, American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses (New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1839), quoted from the 2000 electronic edition prepared by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
http://docsouth.unc.edu
/neh/weld/weld.html, pp. 56–57. The language of “breeding” is quoted on p. 15.