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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... racial ideology . My argument throughout emphasizes how the slave trade collapsed the opposition between civilized and savage — or European and African — societies . I seek to avoid historical presentism and reject the belief that ...
... racial catego- ries by turning to the antislavery literature written during the American wars with Algiers and Tripoli between 1785 and 1815. Compounding Amer- ican captivity among Moslems , the British impressment of American mari ...
... . The role of sentiment , its relation to capitalism , and the formation of racial and cultural boundaries forged by this relation all come to a head in this final chapter . CHAPTER 1 The Commercial Jeremiad But we , in an Introduction 11.
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Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century ... Philip Gould Limited preview - 2003 |