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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... iniquitous traffic ? " Such language demonstrates that the discourse of feeling included the subject of commerce itself . Put another way : for the slave trade to be considered " barbarous , " commerce itself had to be Introduction 3.
... language cited above clearly challenged the compatibility of commercial society— slave - trading society — with enlightened civilization.15 Such a relation was represented through the historical discourse of man- ners.16 This term , as ...
... language during the period between the 1750s and 1810s certainly includes British North America as well . Since the 1980s , so- cial historians like Breen , Jack P. Greene , and J. R. Pole have emphasized the importance of colonial ...
... language of earlier and religiously driven antislavery writing — particularly among Quakers — with later writ- ings that appeal more to the cultural ramifications of commerce , marking the movement from theology to ethics , specifically ...
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