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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... tion of Benezet shifts the focus of sympathy . This book covers the historical period between the rise of antislavery move- ments in the 1770s in Britain and America , and the abolition of the slave trade there in 1807-08 . I intend to ...
... tion in largely the same cultural terms . Writing about the slave trade took place throughout the British Empire , the colonies of British America , the Caribbean , and West Africa . British and American antislavery reformers ...
... tion of the very terms of humanity . Philosophical debates about the mean- ing of race and humanity divided chiefly between " monogenism " and " polygenism . " The former clung to biblical authority and posited the singu- lar creation ...
... tion is paramount in this poetic genre that asks readers to see themselves as suffering African families torn asunder by the slave trade , or to consider their own relations with the slave traders they tacitly support . These confus ...
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Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century ... Philip Gould Limited preview - 2003 |