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1 online resource (viii, 258 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-252) and index. |
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"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. |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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Antislavery movements. |
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United States. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
18th century |
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Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Great Britain. |
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Slave trade in literature.
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Slave trade in literature. |
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Antislavery movements in literature.
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Antislavery movements in literature. |
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Slave trade -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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Slave trade. |
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Slave trade -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Slave trade -- Africa -- History -- 18th century.
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Africa. |
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Capitalism -- Social aspects -- History -- 18th century.
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Capitalism -- Social aspects. |
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United States -- Commerce -- History -- 18th century.
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Commerce. |
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Great Britain -- Commerce -- History -- 18th century.
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Chronological Term |
1700 - 1799 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Gould, Philip, 1960- Barbaric traffic. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003 (DLC) 2003042325 (OCoLC)51878852 |
ISBN |
9780674037854 (electronic book) |
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0674037855 (electronic book) |
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067401166X (alkaline paper) |
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9780674011663 (alkaline paper) |
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