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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... argued that the eighteenth - century At- lantic slave trade provided the economic foundation for the later triumph of English commercial and industrial capitalism . When the protective tariffs and commercial regulations , which had ...
... argued that early antislavery writing lent legitimacy to the emergence of an industrial capitalist order in Great ... argument that antislavery represented a form of bourgeois cultural he- gemony , others have revised his understanding ...
... argued , we should resist pinning " the excesses of modern industrial cap- italism on early modern Lockeans " and thereby projecting a " rapacious , ma- terialistic , self - absorbed individualism back onto [ this eighteenth - century ] ...
... argued , some critics have un- dervalued the critical importance of postcoloniality for the post - Revolution- ary United States.36 Political independence did not translate immediately into cultural independence : both Britain and the ...
... argued the case ) . Later editions of Benezet's Some Historical Account of Guinea , first published in 1771 , included part of Sharp's Representation of the Injustice and Dangerous Tendency of Tolerating Slavery in its appended material ...
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Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century ... Philip Gould Limited preview - 2003 |