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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... refined and clarified the argument that antislavery represented a form of bourgeois cultural he- gemony , others have revised his understanding of the historical and ide- ological role of capitalism in facilitating the growth of ...
... refining the passions.23 Thus in an early number of The Taller Rich- ard Steele describes the " man of conversation " who " acts with great ease and dispatch among men of business . All which he performs with so much success that , with ...
... refinement distinguishing civilized from barbaric peoples . Yet she also engenders the " weight and pressure " of avaricious passions . Commerce , the source of forms of cultural refinement , has the destructive ability to produce ...
... refinement . Chapter 2 begins by questioning traditional critical paradigms that present Anglo - American antislavery poetry as either cheap sentimentalism or con- descending racism — or sometimes both . By first establishing the ...
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Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century ... Philip Gould Limited preview - 2003 |