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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... different versions in journals and an- thologies . Part of Chapter 4 appeared as " Free Carpenter , Venture Capitalist : Reading the Lives of the Early Black Atlantic " in American Literary History 12 ( 2000 ) , pp . 659-684 , and.
... Early Black Atlantic ( University of Kentucky Press , 2001 ) . An earlier version of Chapter 5 appeared as " Race , Commerce , and the Literature of Yellow Fever in Early National Philadelphia , " Early American Literature 35 ( 2000 ) ...
... early antislavery politics have ac- counted in unique ways for the incompatibility between chattel slavery and the rise of liberal capitalism . Originating in Eric Williams's highly controver- sial Capitalism and Slavery ( 1944 ) , this ...
... early antislavery writing lent legitimacy to the emergence of an industrial capitalist order in Great Britain that was concerned with balancing freedom with labor discipline : " Aboli- tionists could contemplate a revolutionary change ...
... early modern European societies and emphasized the civilizing effects of the trade , exchange , and consumption of commercial goods : 17 This keyword [ manners or moeurs ] denoted a complex of shared practices and values , which secured ...
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