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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... enlightened civilization.15 Such a relation was represented through the historical discourse of man- ners.16 This ... Enlightenment sought to make it . 18 Emphasis on manners helps to unlock the ideological complexity with 4 Barbaric Traffic.
... enlightened Christianity , and trade.21 The historian Lawrence Klein has noted the pressure in British culture to distinguish between " true " and " false " manners . Philosophers like Anthony Ashley Cooper , the Third Earl of ...
... enlightened , or " Christian , " manners . To con- demn the slave trade was to uphold the precarious state of civilized commer- cial identity . As one writer for the American Magazine put it in 1787 , " It was not till Christianity ...
... enlightened " and " scientific " in breaking from such authority and theorizing different and unequal human species . Involving a wide array of such notable European , British , and American thinkers as David Hume , Thomas Jefferson ...
... enlightened topoi of bourgeois culture.42 The subject of Chapter 1 , the " commercial jeremiad , " itself registers the legacy of Protestant ideology and rhetoric upon the commercial arguments against slave trading . I compare the ...
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