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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... exchange of work . This field of inspiration , so to speak , includes Lawrence Buell , Vincent Carretta , Rhys Isaac , Mason Lowance , John Saillant , David Shields , Frank Shuffelton , Eric Slauter , Zabelle Stodola , Fredrika Teute ...
... 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 the African slave - trade . " " While I was ...
... exchange . Sentiment saturates this era's literature against slave trading . English Quakers petitioning Parliament in the 1780s to abolish the trade referred to it as " unrighteous traffick . " 12 Across the Atlantic , African American ...
... exchanges be- tween metropolitan London and the West Indies . 32 The circulation of anti- slavery ideology and language ... exchange , and mimicry in or- der to conceptualize the fundamental connections between imperial and co- lonial ...
... exchange over slavery between Benjamin Rush and Richard Nisbet in Philadelphia . Benezet's work also in- fluenced the antislavery poetry that the young Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote as they became friends at Oxford ...
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Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century ... Philip Gould Limited preview - 2003 |