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

Studying the rhetoric of various anti-slavery literature genres - from pamphlets, poetry and novels to slave narratives and the literature of disease - Gould exposes the close relationship between anti-slavery writings and 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.

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