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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... individual as social being and furnished the society surrounding him with an indefinitely complex and flexible texture ; more powerfully even than laws , manners rendered civil society capable of absorbing and controlling human action ...
... individual psychology , it did not justify unlimited accumulation , and it did not deny ( and in fact asserted ) that social responsibilities accompanied rights . " 30 A similar reconsideration has revisited the foundational writers and ...
... individual rights — boundaries that were in this historical period unsteady enough to be easily and even safely redrawn . The cultural limit for black participation in discourses of liberty and rights is the focus of Chapter 5. I ...
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Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century ... Philip Gould Limited preview - 2003 |