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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... Thomas Branagan , Avenia ( Philadelphia : J. Cline , 1810 ) . Brown University Library . HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE , MASSACHUSETTS LONDON , ENGLAND WWW.HUP.HARVARD.EDU W HEN eighteenth - century antislavery writers attacked the ...
... Thomas Clarkson , whose Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species ( 1786 ) was perhaps the single most influential antislavery work in the years preceding the formation of the English Society for Ef- fecting the Abolition ...
... Thomas Horne maintains that " bourgeois virtue " in eighteenth - century America " was not based on an individual psychology , it did not justify unlimited accumulation , and it did not deny ( and in fact asserted ) that social ...
... Thomas , and Roxann Wheeler does recognize the transatlantic reach of eighteenth - century antislavery , but these studies generally emphasize the cultural relations and exchanges be- tween metropolitan London and the West Indies . 32 ...
... Thomas Clarkson and other English activists . Similarly , the Huntingdonian Methodists in Eng- land patronized Phillis Wheatley during her short visit , and later sent the Af- rican American immigrant John Marrant to preach the gospel ...
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Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century ... Philip Gould Limited preview - 2003 |