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

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

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Author / Creator:	Gould, Philip, 1960-
Imprint:	Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 258 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
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. Antislavery movements. Antislavery movements in literature. Capitalism -- Social aspects. Commerce. Slave trade. Slave trade in literature. United States -- Commerce -- History -- 18th century. Great Britain -- Commerce -- History -- 18th century. Africa. Great Britain. United States. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11211095

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ISBN:	9780674037854 0674037855 067401166X 9780674011663
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-252) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. 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 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Gould, Philip, 1960- Barbaric traffic. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003