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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... literature of disease - Gould exposes the close relation between antislavery writings and commercial capitalism . A challenge to the premise that objections to the slave trade were rooted in modern laissez - faire capital- ism , his ...
... literature . 4. Antislavery movements in literature . 5. Slave trade - United States - History- 18th century . 6. Slave trade - Great Britain - History - 18th century . 7. Slave trade- Africa - History - 18th century . 8. Capitalism ...
... literature . Finally , I'd like to thank many of my graduate students whose comments , both in and out of seminar , challenged my thinking in innumerable ways . I am grateful for the fellowships I received from the American Antiquar ...
... Literature of the Early Black Atlantic ( University of Kentucky Press , 2001 ) . An earlier version of Chapter 5 appeared as " Race , Commerce , and the Literature of Yellow Fever in Early National Philadelphia , " Early American Literature ...
... 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 minis- ters celebrating the abolition of ...
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Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century ... Philip Gould Limited preview - 2003 |