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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... argument that antislavery represented a form of bourgeois cultural he- gemony , others have revised his understanding of the historical and ide- ological role of capitalism in facilitating the growth of antislavery move- ments . Yet ...
... argument throughout emphasizes how the slave trade collapsed the opposition between civilized and savage — or ... arguments over racial difference did not neatly align with proslavery and antislavery positions.41 Although my own ...
... arguments against slave trading . I compare the language of earlier and religiously driven antislavery writing ... argument about the inadequacy of racial catego- ries by turning to the antislavery literature written during the ...
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Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century ... Philip Gould Limited preview - 2003 |