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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... sentimental tales and show Christian forbearance toward their former masters . All the slaves were " once dragged by the men of your colour from their native country , and consigned by them to labour — punishment — and death . " 2 Their ...
... sentimental feel- ing , enlightened Christianity , and trade.21 The historian Lawrence Klein has noted the pressure in British culture to distinguish between " true " and " false " manners . Philosophers like Anthony Ashley Cooper , the ...
... sentimental motif of the African slave's suicide . This chapter explores the relations between British and American poets like William Cowper and Phillis Wheatley as well as Anna Barbauld and Philip Freneau . Chapter 3 continues the ...
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Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century ... Philip Gould Limited preview - 2003 |