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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... British and American slave trades in 1808. Studying the rhetoric of vari- ous antislavery genres - from pamphlets , poetry , and novels to slave narratives and the literature of disease - Gould exposes the close relation between ...
... British literature . Finally , I'd like to thank many of my graduate students whose comments , both in and out of seminar , challenged my thinking in innumerable ways . I am grateful for the fellowships I received from the American ...
... British antislavery provided a bridge between preindustrial and industrial values ; by combining the ideal of emancipation with an insistence on duty and subordination , it helped smooth the way to the future . " While Davis has refined ...
... British and American reformers engaged in the same rhetorical tactics , calling the African slave trade an " inhuman Commerce " ; a " base and inhuman Trade " ; " this inhuman commerce " ; " a complete system of Robbery and Murder ...
... British culture to distinguish between " true " and " false " manners . Philosophers like Anthony Ashley Cooper , the Third Earl of Shaftesbury , imbued politeness — which derived from the French politesse , or the superficial art of ...
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Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century ... Philip Gould Limited preview - 2003 |