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Barbaric Traffic : Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Barbaric Traffic Commerce and Antislavery in the EighteenthCentury Atlantic World Author:Philip Gould Studying the rhetoric of various antislavery genres, 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 fo... more »rms 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.« less