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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... rhetorical tactics , calling the African slave trade an " inhuman Commerce " ; a " base and inhuman Trade " ; " this inhuman commerce " ; " a complete system of Robbery and Murder " ; an " unrighteous bloody commerce " and " iniquitous ...
... rhetorically within eighteenth- century discourses about " liberty " and " rights . " Both Marrant and Smith pushed at the semantic boundaries of individual rights — boundaries that were in this historical period unsteady enough to be ...
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Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century ... Philip Gould Limited preview - 2003 |