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

Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
ISBN-10
067401166X
ISBN-13
9780674011663
Category
History
Pages
258
Language
English
Published
2003
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Philip Gould

Description

Studying the rhetoric of antislavery genres, Gould exposes the relation between antislavery writings and commercial capitalism. By distinguishing between good commerce--the importing of commodities that refined manners--and bad commerce, like the slave trade, the literature offered a critique and outline of acceptable forms of commercial capitalism.

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