Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic WorldHarvard University Press, 27.11.2003 - 258 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
The Commercial Jeremiad | 12 |
The Poetics of Antislavery | 43 |
American Slaves in North Africa | 86 |
Liberty Slavery and Black Atlantic Autobiography | 122 |
Yellow Fever and the Black Market | 152 |
Epilogue | 190 |
Notes | 199 |
253 | |
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