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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... Smith . " Just as Locke's enterprise is misunderstood , " writes 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 ...
... Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments . Antislavery autobiographies by fig- ures like Olaudah Equiano and Venture Smith epitomize Black Atlantic writing and the hybrid identities that such diasporic movement produced . And if the ...
... Kant , and Samuel Stanhope Smith , these arguments over racial difference did not neatly align with proslavery and antislavery positions.41 Although my own discussion takes account of this philosophical debate Introduction 9.
... Smith that were written down by white editors . I situate these works rhetorically within eighteenth- century discourses about " liberty " and " rights . " Both Marrant and Smith pushed at the semantic boundaries of individual rights ...
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