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Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

Philip Gould

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Description:Eighteenth-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. Studying the rhetoric of various antislavery genres--from pamphlets, poetry, and novels to slave narratives and the literature of disease--Gould exposes the close relation between antislavery writings and commercial capitalism. By distinguishing between good commerce, or the importing of commodities that refined manners, and bad commerce, like the slave trade, the literature offered both a critique and an outline of acceptable forms of commercial capitalism. A challenge to the premise that objections to the slave trade were rooted in modern laissez-faire capitalism, Gould's work revises--and expands--our understanding of antislavery literature as a form of cultural criticism in its own right.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. To get started finding Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 271

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Release: 2009

ISBN: 0674037855

Description: Eighteenth-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. Studying the rhetoric of various antislavery genres--from pamphlets, poetry, and novels to slave narratives and the literature of disease--Gould exposes the close relation between antislavery writings and commercial capitalism. By distinguishing between good commerce, or the importing of commodities that refined manners, and bad commerce, like the slave trade, the literature offered both a critique and an outline of acceptable forms of commercial capitalism. A challenge to the premise that objections to the slave trade were rooted in modern laissez-faire capitalism, Gould's work revises--and expands--our understanding of antislavery literature as a form of cultural criticism in its own right.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. To get started finding Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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