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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... barbarity of slave trading as an illicit form of exchange . But then " a little white man " enters the dream ; in one hand he carries " a sub- scription paper and a petition " and in the other " a small pamphlet on the unlawfulness of ...
... barbarous , this iniquitous traffic ? " Such language demonstrates that the discourse of feeling included the subject of commerce itself . Put another way : for the slave trade to be considered " barbarous , " commerce itself had to be ...
... barbarous Slave Trade " ; " this iniquitous traffick " and " this infamous traffick " ; a nefarious commerce " and " vile commerce " ; an " iniquitous com- merce " conducted by " men - stealers , though far worse than high - way rob ...
... barbarity.39 The lan- guage of antislavery supports this view of the contested and protean nature of racial ideology . My argument throughout emphasizes how the slave trade collapsed the opposition between civilized and savage — or ...
... barbarity . " The problem of identifica- tion is paramount in this poetic genre that asks readers to see themselves as suffering African families torn asunder by the slave trade , or to consider their own relations with the slave ...
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Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century ... Philip Gould Limited preview - 2003 |