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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... 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 referred to the ...
... Quakers had been corresponding throughout much of the eighteenth century over the troubling issue of slavery.37 Benezet's stu- dent , William Dillwyn , traveled to England where he met Thomas Clarkson and other English activists ...
Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World Philip Gould. ential Quakers like Anthony Benezet and John Woolman cited in their own antislavery writings . 38 In addition to religious groups , the antislavery movement ...
... Quakers — with later writ- ings that appeal more to the cultural ramifications of commerce , marking the movement from theology to ethics , specifically commercial ethics . Over time antislavery culture preoccupied itself less with sin ...
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