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Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries: British Literature, Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1731-1814 Hardcover - 2019

by Moore, Sean

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Oxford Univ Pr, 2019. Hardcover. New. 256 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.75 inches.
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  • Title Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries: British Literature, Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1731-1814
  • Author Moore, Sean
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition New
  • Pages 284
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford Univ Pr
  • Date 2019
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # x-0198836376
  • ISBN 9780198836377 / 0198836376
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.4 x 0.9 in (23.62 x 16.26 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects History, America
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018962582
  • Dewey Decimal Code 070.5

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Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce--the book trade and the slave trade. Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries bridges the study of these trades by demonstrating how Americans' profits from slavery were reinvested in imported British books and providing evidence that the colonial book market was shaped, in part, by the demand of slave owners for metropolitan cultural capital. Drawing on recent scholarship that shows how participation in London cultural life was very expensive in the eighteenth century, as well as evidence that enslavers were therefore some of the few early Americans who could afford to import British cultural products, the volume merges the fields of the history of the book, Atlantic studies, and the study of race, arguing that the empire-wide circulation of British books was underwritten by the labour of the African diaspora.

The volume is the first in early American and eighteenth-century British studies to fuse our growing understanding of the material culture of the transatlantic text with our awareness of slavery as an economic and philanthropic basis for the production and consumption of knowledge. In studying the American dissemination of works of British literature and political thought, it claims that Americans were seeking out the forms of citizenship, constitutional traditions, and rights that were the signature of that British identity. Even though they were purchasing the sovereignty of Anglo-Americans at the expense of African-Americans through these books, however, some colonials were also making the case for the abolition of slavery.

About the author

Sean Moore, Associate Professor of English, University of New Hampshire

Sean Moore is the Editor of the international journal Eighteenth-Century Studies. He is the author of Swift, the Book, and the Irish Financial Revolution: Satire and Sovereignty in Colonial Ireland (Johns Hopkins UP, 2010), which won the Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book from the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS). He has published in PMLA, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Atlantic Studies, the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, and other journals and essay collections. He was a Fulbright Scholar to Ireland as a graduate student, and has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), American Antiquarian Society (AAS), Library Company of Philadelphia, Folger Library, John Carter Brown Library, Newport Mansions, and other institutions.

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