Barbaric Traffic:
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 uncertai...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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. 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. By distinguishing between good commerce, or the importing of commodities that refined manners, and bad commerce, like the slave trade, the literature offered both a critique and an outline of acceptable forms of commercial capitalism. A challenge to the premise that objections to the slave trade were rooted in modern laissez-faire capitalism, Gould's work revises--and expands--our understanding of antislavery literature as a form of cultural criticism in its own right. Table of Contents: Introduction 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 Epilogue Notes Index This is a very important book which convincingly rethinks the fundamental agenda of Anglo-American anti-slavery literature from 1775 to 1808 (the end of the British slave trade). This is no small feat. Anti-slavery texts, Gould argues, offered less a critique of slavery than a critique of the slave trade. By distinguishing between good commerce (the importing of commodities that refined the manners) and bad commerce (the importation of slaves), these texts both critiqued commercial capitalism and outlined its acceptable and necessary forms. Thus anti-slavery texts endlessly deferred the issue of abolition in order to serve as a site of moral uncertainty about whether commercial capitalism would debase or civilize modern society. Sin is less feared than the depravity of manners which could corrupt Anglo-American culture at its core. Because virtuous and vicious commerce turned on the nature and regulation of passions, much was at stake. Closely attending to a vast number of transatlantic texts, Gould defines and demonstrates a "commercial aesthetic" that inflects the language of race and sentiments with issues of economic and social change. |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (270 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780674037854 |
| DOI: | 10.4159/9780674037854 |
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| spelling | GOULD, Philip Verfasser aut Barbaric Traffic Philip GOULD. Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press [2021] © 2003 1 Online-Ressource (270 pages) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Mrz 2021) 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. 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. By distinguishing between good commerce, or the importing of commodities that refined manners, and bad commerce, like the slave trade, the literature offered both a critique and an outline of acceptable forms of commercial capitalism. A challenge to the premise that objections to the slave trade were rooted in modern laissez-faire capitalism, Gould's work revises--and expands--our understanding of antislavery literature as a form of cultural criticism in its own right. Table of Contents: Introduction 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 Epilogue Notes Index This is a very important book which convincingly rethinks the fundamental agenda of Anglo-American anti-slavery literature from 1775 to 1808 (the end of the British slave trade). This is no small feat. Anti-slavery texts, Gould argues, offered less a critique of slavery than a critique of the slave trade. By distinguishing between good commerce (the importing of commodities that refined the manners) and bad commerce (the importation of slaves), these texts both critiqued commercial capitalism and outlined its acceptable and necessary forms. Thus anti-slavery texts endlessly deferred the issue of abolition in order to serve as a site of moral uncertainty about whether commercial capitalism would debase or civilize modern society. Sin is less feared than the depravity of manners which could corrupt Anglo-American culture at its core. Because virtuous and vicious commerce turned on the nature and regulation of passions, much was at stake. Closely attending to a vast number of transatlantic texts, Gould defines and demonstrates a "commercial aesthetic" that inflects the language of race and sentiments with issues of economic and social change. In English HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775) bisacsh Antislavery movements in literature Antislavery movements History 18th century Great Britain Antislavery movements History 18th century United States Antislavery movements Great Britain History 18th century Antislavery movements United States History 18th century Capitalism Social aspects History 18th century Slave trade in literature Slave trade History 18th century Africa Slave trade History 18th century Great Britain Slave trade History 18th century United States Slave trade Africa History 18th century Slave trade Great Britain History 18th century Slave trade United States History 18th century https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674037854 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext |
| spellingShingle | GOULD, Philip Barbaric Traffic HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775) bisacsh Antislavery movements in literature Antislavery movements History 18th century Great Britain Antislavery movements History 18th century United States Antislavery movements Great Britain History 18th century Antislavery movements United States History 18th century Capitalism Social aspects History 18th century Slave trade in literature Slave trade History 18th century Africa Slave trade History 18th century Great Britain Slave trade History 18th century United States Slave trade Africa History 18th century Slave trade Great Britain History 18th century Slave trade United States History 18th century |
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| topic | HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775) bisacsh Antislavery movements in literature Antislavery movements History 18th century Great Britain Antislavery movements History 18th century United States Antislavery movements Great Britain History 18th century Antislavery movements United States History 18th century Capitalism Social aspects History 18th century Slave trade in literature Slave trade History 18th century Africa Slave trade History 18th century Great Britain Slave trade History 18th century United States Slave trade Africa History 18th century Slave trade Great Britain History 18th century Slave trade United States History 18th century |
| topic_facet | HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775) Antislavery movements in literature Antislavery movements History 18th century Great Britain Antislavery movements History 18th century United States Antislavery movements Great Britain History 18th century Antislavery movements United States History 18th century Capitalism Social aspects History 18th century Slave trade in literature Slave trade History 18th century Africa Slave trade History 18th century Great Britain Slave trade History 18th century United States Slave trade Africa History 18th century Slave trade Great Britain History 18th century Slave trade United States History 18th century |
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