Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

by Philip Gould

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067401166X
• ISBN13: 9780674011663
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.7"