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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... political movements were in large part self - reflexive . In Rush's paradise African slaves piously await their glorification in heaven . They tell him their sad and sentimental tales and show Christian forbearance toward their former ...
... politics have ac- counted in unique ways for the incompatibility between chattel slavery and the rise of liberal capitalism . Originating in Eric Williams's highly controver- sial Capitalism and Slavery ( 1944 ) , this perspective ...
... political strategy to deflect contemporary anxieties about the immediate emancipation of African slaves . Instead , the language cited above clearly challenged the compatibility of commercial society— slave - trading society — with ...
... political scientist Thomas Horne maintains that " bourgeois virtue " in eighteenth - century America " was not based on an individual psychology , it did not justify unlimited accumulation , and it did not deny ( and in fact asserted ) ...
... political tracts , petitions , public and private epistles , autobiographies , and of course belletristic genres ... political emergence of the United States out of colonial America during the 1780s certainly was dif- ferent from ...
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Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century ... Philip Gould Limited preview - 2003 |