Barbaric traffic : commerce and antislavery in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world /

"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 cultura...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gould, Philip, 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.
Temas:
1700-1799
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 18th century.
Antislavery movements > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Slave trade in literature.
Antislavery movements in literature.
Slave trade > United States > History > 18th century.
Slave trade > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Slave trade > Africa > History > 18th century.
Capitalism > Social aspects > History > 18th century.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Esclaves > Commerce, dans la littérature.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes dans la littérature.
Esclaves > Commerce > États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Esclaves > Commerce > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Esclaves > Commerce > Afrique > Histoire > 18e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Antislavery movements
Antislavery movements in literature
Capitalism > Social aspects
Commerce
Slave trade
Slave trade in literature
Abolitionisme.
Slavenhandel.
Literaire teksten.
United States > Commerce > History > 18th century.
Great Britain > Commerce > History > 18th century.
Africa
Great Britain
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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