Title Barbaric traffic : commerce and antislavery in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world / Philip Gould

Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 258 pages) : illustrations Contents 1. The Commercial Jeremiad -- 2. The Poetics of Antislavery -- 3. American Slaves in North Africa -- 4. Liberty, Slavery, and Black Atlantic Autobiography -- 5. Yellow Fever and the Black Market Summary "When 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 - they expressed a moral uncertainty about the nature of commercial capitalism. A major work of cultural criticism, Barbaric Traffic constitutes a rethinking of the fundamental agenda of antislavery writing from pre-revolutionary America to the end of the British and America 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. A challenge to the premise that objections to the slave trade were rooted in modern laissez-faire capitalism, his work revises - and expands - our understanding of anti-slavery literature as a form of cultural criticism in its own right."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-252) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 18th century Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Slave trade in literature. Antislavery movements in literature. Slave trade -- United States -- History -- 18th century Slave trade -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Slave trade -- Africa -- History -- 18th century Capitalism -- Social aspects -- History -- 18th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery. HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775) Antislavery movements Antislavery movements in literature Capitalism -- Social aspects Commerce Slave trade Slave trade in literature Abolitionisme. Slavenhandel. Literaire teksten. 15.85 history of America. Sklavenhandel Sklaverei Abschaffung Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 18th century. Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. Slave trade in literature. Antislavery movements in literature. Slave trade -- United States -- History. Slave trade -- Great Britain -- History. Slave trade -- Africa -- History. Capitalism -- Social aspects -- History. SUBJECT United States -- Commerce -- History -- 18th century Great Britain -- Commerce -- History -- 18th century Subject Africa Great Britain United States Afrika Großbritannien USA United States -- Commerce -- 18th century. Great Britain -- Commerce -- 18th century. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2003042325 ISBN 9780674037854 0674037855

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