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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... European societies and emphasized the civilizing effects of the trade , exchange , and consumption of commercial goods : 17 This keyword [ manners or moeurs ] denoted a complex of shared practices and values , which secured the ...
... Europeans in the East and West Indies ( 1770 ) . The antislavery sections in the Scottish philosopher John Millar's The Origins of the Distinctions of Ranks ( 1781 , 3rd ed . ) showed an awareness of Benezet's writings , as did the ...
... European and African — societies . I seek to avoid historical presentism and reject the belief that racism historically produced African slavery in the western hemisphere . In her famous challenge to Winthrop D. Jordan's White Over ...
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Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century ... Philip Gould Limited preview - 2003 |