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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... economic foundation for the later triumph of English commercial and industrial capitalism . When the protective tariffs and commercial regulations , which had protected the West Indian slave and sugar economies for more than a century ...
... Smith's purpose is distorted when the market mechanism he envisioned as a means to a moral end is presented as itself the goal of political economy . " 31 * * * This book interprets the categories of " literature " and 6 Barbaric Traffic.
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Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century ... Philip Gould Limited preview - 2003 |