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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... antislavery writers attacked the slave trade as " barbaric traffic " -a practice that would corrupt the mien and ... writing from pre - revolutionary America to the end of the British and American slave trades in 1808. Studying the rhetoric ...
Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World Philip Gould. Acknowledgments Over the last six years , during the research and writing of this book , I have enjoyed the scholarly resources and professional environment ...
... antislavery writing . Rush claims that his dream was inspired by the Eng- lish abolitionist Thomas Clarkson , whose Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species ( 1786 ) was perhaps the single most influential antislavery work ...
Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World Philip Gould. Modern antislavery ... writing lent legitimacy to the emergence of an industrial capitalist order ... antislavery provided a bridge between preindustrial and ...
Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World Philip Gould. Emphasis on manners helps to unlock the ideological complexity with which antislavery writing characterizes trade as either " civilized " or " bar- baric ...
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Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century ... Philip Gould Limited preview - 2003 |