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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... American wars with Algiers and Tripoli between 1785 and 1815. Compounding Amer- ican captivity among Moslems , the British impressment of American mari- ners and British seizure of American shipping brought confusion to 10 Barbaric Traffic.
... captivity and slavery . American propaganda held the British to be as " barbaric " as the Moslem world — in- deed it culturally merged the two . The question of the place of British cul- ture in America underlies much of the Barbary ...
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Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century ... Philip Gould Limited preview - 2003 |