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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... considering the upward mobility of workers , but rather the rise of distant Negroes to the level of humanity ... Consider , for example , the " Remarks on the Slave Trade , " which appeared in 1789 in the Philadel- phia publisher ...
... Consider a piece on trade that was reprinted in an American periodical in 1803 : Trade is a fluctuating thing ; it passed from Tyre to Alexandria , from Alexan- dria to Venice , from Venice to Antwerp , from Antwerp to Amsterdam and ...
... consider their own relations with the slave traders they tacitly support . These confus- ing and problematic identifications go a long way in explaining , for exam- ple , the poetic convention of the African speaker . The paradox of ...
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Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century ... Philip Gould Limited preview - 2003 |