Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic WorldHarvard University Press, 27. 11. 2003 - Počet stran: 258 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. |
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... manners of Anglo - American cul- ture to its core - they expressed a moral uncertainty about the nature of commercial capitalism . A major work of cultural criti- cism , Barbaric Traffic constitutes a rethinking of the fundamental ...
... manners . Its branding the African slave trade as " barbaric " com- merce made other forms of commerce seem civilized and legitimate . Many modern historical studies of early antislavery politics have ac- counted in unique ways for the ...
... [ manners or moeurs ] denoted a complex of shared practices and values , which secured the individual as social being and furnished the society surrounding him with an indefinitely complex and flexible texture ; more powerfully even than ...
... manners allows us to think about the rise of com- mercial capitalism outside of the tired binary between " republicanism " and " liberalism " that once dominated eighteenth - century American studies . 20 Yet during the eighteenth ...
... manners . To con- demn the slave trade was to uphold the precarious state of civilized commer- cial identity . As one writer for the American Magazine put it in 1787 , " It was not till Christianity influenced the manners of men , and ...
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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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