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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... narratives and the literature of disease - Gould exposes the close relation between antislavery writings and commercial capitalism . A challenge to the premise that objections to the slave trade were rooted in modern laissez - faire ...
... Narrative of Olaudah Equiano significantly served as proof of African humanity , it derived largely from the English translation ( from the French ) of Michel Adanson's A Voyage to Senegal , the Isle of Goree and the River Gambia ( 1759 ) ...
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Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century ... Philip Gould Limited preview - 2003 |