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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... James Montgomery , James Grahame , and E. Benger ( London , 1809 ) . Boston Public Library / Rare Books Department - Courtesy of the Trustees . 5. Benjamin Rush , “ A Moral and Physical Thermometer . " Columbian Magazine ( January ...
... James T. Kloppenberg , " when his liberalism serves as the midwife of possessive individualism , so Smith's purpose is distorted when the market mechanism he envisioned as a means to a moral end is presented as itself the goal of ...
... James Swan emigrated to New England and wrote against slavery from the colonial periphery but with a British audience primarily in mind . The Virginian Arthur Lee's antislavery tract responded to the 1764 edition of Adam Smith's Theory ...
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Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century ... Philip Gould Limited preview - 2003 |