001478438 000__ 09161nam\a22009255i\4500 001478438 001__ 1478438 001478438 003__ DE-B1597 001478438 005__ 20231026034903.0 001478438 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001478438 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001478438 008__ 210324t20212003mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001478438 020__ $$a9780674037854 001478438 0247_ $$a10.4159/9780674037854$$2doi 001478438 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)574457 001478438 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001478438 0410_ $$aeng 001478438 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001478438 050_4 $$aE446 -- G68 2003eb 001478438 072_7 $$aHIS036020$$2bisacsh 001478438 08204 $$a306.3/62/097309033 001478438 1001_ $$aGOULD, Philip, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001478438 24510 $$aBarbaric Traffic /$$cPhilip GOULD. 001478438 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2021] 001478438 264_4 $$c©2003 001478438 300__ $$a1 online resource (270 p.) 001478438 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001478438 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001478438 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001478438 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001478438 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tContents -- $$tIllustrations -- $$tIntroduction -- $$t1 The Commercial Jeremiad -- $$t2 The Poetics of Antislavery -- $$t3 American Slaves in North Africa -- $$t4 Liberty, Slavery, and Black Atlantic Autobiography -- $$t5 Yellow Fever and the Black Market -- $$tEpilogue -- $$tNotes -- $$tIndex 001478438 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001478438 520__ $$aEighteenth-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. Gould's next move is to argue with reference to what he calls "the commercial jeremiad" that the very ideological discourse of civilization and savagery is rooted in trade. The concept of race is largely produced by this oppositional discourse rather than founded on its prior existence.--Jay Fliegelman, author of Prodigals and Pilgrims and Declaring IndependenceThis is a very important book with compelling and new insights throughout. It is the first book to examine such a wide range of both literary and historical sources on 18th century Anglo-American antislavery, and it does so with superb textual readings.--John Stauffer, author of The Black Hearts of Men and John Brown and the Coming of the Civil WarExtensively researched and carefully argued, Barbaric Traffic demonstrates an admirably sure-footed, clearsighted awareness of how transatlantic Enlightenment discourses of aesthetics, commerce, liberty, race, religion, and sentiment pursue distinct logics of their own yet cannot be pried apart.--Lawrence Buell, author of Emerson and Writing for an Endangered WorldBarbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the 18th Century Atlantic World appears as a welcome addition to debates about slavery, sentimentality, and culture in American studies. Its readings are meticulous, historically grounded, and theoretically informed. The writing is clear and persuasive. Gould has an original and sometimes really stunning sense of the relation between ethics and manners in eighteenth century interpretations of capitalism and slavery exposed so trenchantly by earlier critics like Eric Williams. In particular, he is very good at deciphering what he calls "the ideological movement from theology to ethics" that appears through debates about slavery and commerce in the period. Gould presents excellent interpretations of the Christian sentiments of Phillis Wheatley, of the under-interpreted political context of Slaves of Algiers, of the expose of the slave ship by the Philadelphian Mathew Carey, and of the racialized ambivalence attached to the yellow fever panic of 1793 in Philadelphia. Few critics writing today show the range of concerns and depth of research that appears in Gould's work, which reminds me of the historical depth and clarity of David Brion Davis, and also of the commitment to paradigm shifts of Thomas Haskell. 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