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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... While I was employed in con- templating this venerable figure — suddenly I beheld the whole assembly running to meet him — the air resounded with the clapping of hands — and I 1 awoke from my dream , by the noise of a Introduction.
... figure Susanna Rowson , whose drama Slaves in Algiers ( 1794 ) is the subject of the main discussion , as are Royall Tyler's The Algerine Captive ( 1797 ) and Washington Irving's Salmagundi papers ( 1807-8 ) . Chapter 4 examines the ...
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