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Author Gould, Philip, 1960-

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

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.

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