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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... David Shields , Frank Shuffelton , Eric Slauter , Zabelle Stodola , Fredrika Teute , and Roxann Wheeler . Certain sections of this book have appeared in different versions in journals and an- thologies . Part of Chapter 4 appeared as ...
... David Brion Davis , for example , argued that early antislavery writing lent legitimacy to the emergence of an industrial capitalist order in Great Britain that was concerned with balancing freedom with labor discipline : " Aboli ...
... David Hume , Thomas Jefferson , the Abbe Gregoire , Lord Kames , Immanuel Kant , and Samuel Stanhope Smith , these arguments over racial difference did not neatly align with proslavery and antislavery positions.41 Although my own ...
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Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century ... Philip Gould Limited preview - 2003 |