Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic WorldEighteenth-century antislavery writers attacked the slave trade as "barbaric traffic"--a practice that would corrupt the mien and manners of Anglo-American culture to its core. Less concerned with slavery than with the slave trade in and of itself, these writings expressed a moral uncertainty about the nature of commercial capitalism. This is the argument Philip Gould advances in Barbaric Traffic. A major work of cultural criticism, the book constitutes a rethinking of the fundamental agenda of antislavery writing from pre-revolutionary America to the end of the British and American slave trades in 1808. |
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... Abolition of the Slave Trade ; Written by James Montgomery , James Grahame , and E. Benger ( London , 1809 ) . Boston Public Library / Rare Books Department - Courtesy of the Trustees . 5. Benjamin Rush , “ A Moral and Physical ...
... Abolition Society yet owner of a slave ) imagines an ideal place for the African dead . Far removed from the fallen world , the " paradise " of this dream vision unsurprisingly occasions the opportunity to recount the horrors of slavery ...
... Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1787. Clarkson's footnotes , for their part , acknowledge that he had read Benezet's seminal antislavery writ- ings . ( In addition to Clarkson , Benezet influenced a wide array of anti- slavery writers ...
... abolition of the trade in 1807 similarly referred to the " abominable traffic " and " the unnatural monster . " 13 Between the 1760s and 1810s British and American reformers engaged in the same rhetorical tactics , calling the African ...
... abolitionist reform.28 My study aims rather at interrogating the meaning of " liberalism . " This involves a direct challenge to the C. B. Macpherson cultural model of " possessive individualism . " As T. H. Breen has argued , we should ...
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Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century ... Philip Gould Limited preview - 2003 |