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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Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World Philip Gould. BARBARIC TRAFFIC PHILIP GOULD COMMERCE AND ANTISLAVERY IN THE 18TH CENTURY PHILIP GOULD is Professor of English at Brown University . LIBER Front Cover.
... English at Brown University . jacket design : Lisa Roberts jacket illustration : " A Plea for Liberty , " from Thomas Branagan , Avenia ( Philadelphia : J. Cline , 1810 ) . Brown University Library . HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE ...
... English Department also have been very supportive . This project grew significantly from the guidance I received from both Jim Egan and Leonard Tennenhouse — two brilliant critics and wonderful friends . I want to thank other colleagues ...
... English Society for Ef- fecting the 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 ...
... English Quakers petitioning Parliament in the 1780s to abolish the trade referred to it as " unrighteous traffick . " 12 Across the Atlantic , African American minis- ters celebrating the abolition of the trade in 1807 similarly ...
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Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century ... Philip Gould Limited preview - 2003 |