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