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concepts as distinctive, these activists argued, limits the effectiveness of consumer
activism. 105 Cropper’s emphasis on equalization of duties on free- and slave-grown sugar
suggests this second variation of consumer activism. Free-grown sugar, if allowed to
compete fairly with slave-grown sugar, had much to offer: competitive price and moral
means of production. These two competing strains of consumer activism would remain a
consistent theme throughout the remainder of the movement and would create dissension
among the supporters of abstention and free produce.
105 Ibid., 10.
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