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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... Carey's periodical American Museum . " Where is the human being , " the author asks , " that can picture to himself this scene of woe , without at the same time execrating a trade which spreads misery and desolation wherever it appears ...
... Carey and African American leaders Richard Allen and Absa- lom Jones . They responded vigorously to Carey's claims that the city's blacks had intentionally driven up wages for carting the sick and burying the dead during this social and ...
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Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century ... Philip Gould Limited preview - 2003 |