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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Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World Philip Gould. PHILIP GOULD Barbaric Traffic Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth - Century Atlantic World HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge , Massachusetts , and ...
... antislavery writ- ings . ( In addition to Clarkson , Benezet influenced a wide array of anti- slavery writers across the Atlantic world , including Olaudah Equiano , the Abbe Raynal , Granville Sharp , and John Wesley . ) Rush's self ...
... antislavery sermons , orations , political tracts , petitions , public and private epistles , autobiographies , and of course belletristic genres such as fiction , poetry , and drama . I place early American antislavery writing in a ...
... antislavery movements opposed such exploita- tion in largely the same cultural terms . Writing about the slave trade took place throughout the British Empire , the colonies of British America , the Caribbean , and West Africa . British ...
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 ...
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Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century ... Philip Gould Limited preview - 2003 |